11 Quotes by Helder Camara

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

In the Father’s house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants...

Anytime, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we are bathed in God.

God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve.