Frei Betto quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- Frei Betto
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“Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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