On the Side of the Poor Quotes

“In the face of unjust and premature death which poverty implies, “the noble combat for justice” (Pius XII) acquires dramatic and urgent characteristics. To be aware of this is a question of clarity and honesty. It is necessary, moreover, to overcome the mentality that places these facts in an exclusively political field in which faith has little or nothing to say; this attitude expresses the “divorce between faith and life,” which Santo Domingo sees still today as capable of “producing clamorous situations of injustice, social inequality, and violence” (24).”
― Gustavo Gutiérrez, On the Side of the Poor: The Theology of Liberation