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“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
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“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick.”
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“We are not optimists; we do not present a lovely vision of the world which everyone is expected to fall in love with. We simply have, wherever we are, some small local task to do, on the side of justice, for the poor. —HERBERT MCCABE, OP”
― Hope without Optimism
― Hope without Optimism
“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.”
― The Red Pyramid
― The Red Pyramid
“Revolution is not intelligible and certainly not reasonable within the thought forms and language of this current world; revolution requires faith. When he speaks of the new world, the world to come, the revolutionary cannot describe it as a change of conditions within this world which, upon calculation, will be found to be preferable, he can only speak in parables, hoping that he will awaken his listener to share his vision and faith.”
― God Matters
― God Matters
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