Andrea Gallo Quotes
1928–2013
Andrea Gallo (C.E.1928 – 2013) is an Italian founder, leader, and presbyter of the community of San Benedetto al Porto of Genoa.
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A transsexual person is a daughter of God like every other human being.
Dear guys, at 17 years and a month with the partisans I saw the birth of democracy, now that I'm old should I see it die? You are the hope, let's remain human!
Remember, when the Vatican archives open everyone will know that Siri did not return defeated but a loser. (page 99)
I dismissed God, threw away a love, to build a void in my soul and heart. (page 129)
However it is true, I am a communist. I never forget the Bible and the Gospel. And I never forget what Marx wrote.
My only regret is that I have sometimes been too gentle with all the institutions, with all the powers.
This is why democracy and anarchy go together. Because power must be used for the common good and not for personal interests. (p. 28)
I would call one of Genoa's illnesses the opposing vetoes: when faced with a project it opposes just for the sake of opposing it. (p. 42)
Can you imagine a sailor who spends six, seven months at sea, gets off the ship, arrives in the historic center and no longer finds the whores? (p. 94)
The minorities are a sort of apocalyptic vision of the good. (p. 25)
I see that when I open my arms, the walls fall. Welcome means building bridges and not walls.
Sex education should be a focus. [...] It is a gift from God, sexuality.
In the reality in which we are immersed - complex and sad, scared and militarised, with politics in disarray - it will be poetry that will save us. (p. 8)