"Is it possible to live in peace and happiness when you know that two-thirds of human beings
are suffering, hungry and poor?
To be human we have to have compassion. This is the defining factor of our humanity and is gradually being lost in a culture of material values.
It’s not only the cry of the poor we must listen to but also the cry of the earth.The earth and human beings are both threatened.
We must do something to change the situation...
There won’t be a Noah’s Ark to save only some of us.
To meet people’s fundamental concerns change is needed. The world as it is does not offer the majority of humanity life but rather hell.
I believe that change is possible, because I cannot accept a God who could remain indifferent to this world,
but one who cares about the poor and the suffering."
Leonardo Boff,
Theologian
Brazil
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