“The core of liberation theology is profoundly "theologal" - that is, rooted in the very nature of God. You see, there's an immediate relationship between God, oppression, liberation: God is in the poor who cry out. And God is the one who listens to the cry and liberates, so that the poor no longer need to cry out. ( Leonardo Boff, p. 166)”
― The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation
― The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation
“And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express”
― Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals 1934-1939
― Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals 1934-1939
“It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the life-force; this will not detract from their goodness, as long as they stand courageously by the truth. There is ground for hope in the fact that among millions of decent, hard-working people there are only a few plague-ridden individuals, who do untold harm by appealing to the dark, dangerous drives of the armored average man and mobilizing him for political murder. There is but one antidote to the average man's predisposition to plague: his own feelings for true life. The life force does not seek power but demands only to play its full and acknowledged part in human affairs. It manifests itself through love, work and knowledge.”
― Listen, Little Man!
― Listen, Little Man!
“Everyone who is not happy must be shot.”
― The Little Drummer Girl
― The Little Drummer Girl
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