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If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.
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Paul Farmer (In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez)
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a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Paul Farmer (In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez)
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the basis of our preferential option for the poor to say: I accompany them not because they are all good, or because I am all good, but because God is good.
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Paul Farmer (In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez)
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The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.
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Gustavo Gutiérrez (A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation)