WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:29:21 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Camara, Helder – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Camara, Helder -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/camara-helder/22578/ https://wist.info/camara-helder/22578/#respond Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:00:32 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=22578 When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why they have no food, they call me a Communist.

[Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista.]


Hélder Câmara (1909-1999) Brazilian Catholic Archbishop, social and political activist
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On serving the poor in Brazil. In Abp. John R. Quinn, letter to the New York Times (31 Mar 1991) ]]> https://wist.info/camara-helder/22578/feed/ 0 22578 Camara, Helder -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/camara-helder/37855/ https://wist.info/camara-helder/37855/#respond Mon, 28 Aug 2017 23:51:17 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=37855 Be careful how you live your life, it is the only Gospel many people will ever read.


Hélder Câmara (1909-1999) Brazilian Catholic Archbishop, social and political activist
(Attributed)

Quoted in 1985 in Basta, the national news letter of the Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America.

Alt. trans.: "Watch how you live. Your lives may be the only gospel your brothers and sisters will ever read." ]]> https://wist.info/camara-helder/37855/feed/ 0 37855