Michael Iafrate vox victimarum, vox dei

Quotes

"The desire to rule is the mother of all heresy." - St. John Chrysostom

“Tell me, why is it that when you speak of our theology you call it ‘Latin American theology,’ but when you speak of your theology you call it ‘theology?’” - Gonzalo Arroyo, SJ

"Christian fidelity is not the monopoly of ecclesial conformists. [...] In the pilgrim Church, ideological purity is no sign of theological wisdom." - Philip Endean, SJ

"[O]ne must live in a state of permanent dissatisfaction with the Church." - Dorothy Day

"It is better that the United States be liquidated than that she survive by war." - Dorothy Day

"It is not true that liberation theology replaces God and Christ with the poor. It was Christ who wanted to identify himself with the poor." - Leonardo Boff

"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them. Unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom." - Noam Chomsky

"Hear the voice / of those who in all honesty / feel bound to choose / the cold / outside your house. / ... / You are goodness / and I find you / in people who do not confess you." - Dom Helder Camara

"[Americans] have little common history that is not also a history of war." - Stanley Hauerwas

"No one can kill the voice of justice." - Archbishop Oscar Romero

"There is no history of salvation without salvation in history." - Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ

"If the crucified people are not able to turn hearts of stone into hearts of flesh, nothing can." - Jon Sobrino, SJ

"The resurrection is the ultimate basis for rebellion." - Rafael Avila

"[F]aith is not given to us so as to enable us to 'belong to the Church' but so that we may understand and love being human." - James Alison

"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is. It’s to imagine what is possible." - bell hooks

"I open up my wallet / and it's full of blood."
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

"It is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly."
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2418

"The state is a relationship between human beings, a way by which people relate to one another; and one destroys it by entering into other relationships, by behaving differently to one another." - Gustav Landauer

"Whoever is not angry when there is cause for anger, sins!" - St. John Chrysostom

"To force people to pay for things they need to survive is an atrocity: a community- and nature-destroying atrocity." - Derrick Jensen

"It is time to radically and fundamentally challenge the givenness of the modern nation-state." - George Tinker

"We seek a world in which there is room for many worlds." - Subcommander Marcos (EZLN)

‎"The future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as of the grave." - Rebecca Solnit