Home / Quotes / Quote by Oscar Romero

Quote by Oscar Romero

“We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.”

Quote by Oscar Romero

Author

Oscar Romero was a renowned biographer known for his in-depth research and vivid storytelling. His works cover a wide range of subjects from historical figures to contemporary celebrities, and are praised for his profound insights into the inner world of characters and accurate descriptions of historical events. more

You May Also Like

“We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.”

Children Night Jesus Sleep Poor Gone Figures Bed Newspapers Catholicism Covered Doorways

Author:Oscar Romero

“Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou shalt not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders. The church cannot remain silent before such an abomination. ...In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: stop the repression.”

People Humans Law Suffering Order Names Heaven Church Cry Brother Conscience Silent Killing Soldier Contrary Each Day Catholicism Immoral Obliged Repression Subordinates Abomination

Author:Oscar Romero

“When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.”

Giving Social Church Cry Structure Misery Arise Catholicism Oppressed Social Structure

Author:Oscar Romero

“That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.”

People Giving May Self Body Pain Suffering Christ Justice Blood Catholicism Harvest Peace And Justice Suffering And Pain

Author:Oscar Romero

“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”

Men Inspirational I Can Would Be Marriage Imagine Blind Unions Cynical Deaf Happy Marriage Anti Love Cynical Love Hilarious Love

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.”

Ifs Want Ends Country Lying Social Causes Violence Citizens Flow Roots Management Injustice Remove Catholicism Tire Repression Primal Exclusion Declaring Social Injustice

Author:Oscar Romero

“Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed, who have tortured, who have done so much evil, are listening to me? Listen, there in your criminal hideout, perhaps already repentant, you too are called to forgiveness.”

Ifs Knows Done Hands Evil Father Listening Shots Murder Criminals Catholicism

Author:Oscar Romero

“It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.”

People Earth Heaven Lord Possession Catholicism Preaching Bourgeoisie Opium

Author:Frei Betto

“For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.”

Men Want Justice Struggle Atheist Believer Catholicism Divided Oppressed Unjust Oppressors Unjust Society

Author:Frei Betto

“The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.”