It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts.

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.