Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo quotes
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“Justice from Love, and Love from Justice”
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“Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.”
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“The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.”
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“No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.”
-- Carlos Filipe Ximenes BeloSource : Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (2001). “The Road to Freedom: A Collection of Speeches, Pastoral Letters, and Articles from 1997-2001”
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Source : "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.
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“Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”
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“Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love”
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“Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.”
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“Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.”
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