In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without peace. If the demands of the people are not met, what kind of peace are we talking about?

... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.

... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they have to begin to understand one another.

No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life