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Óscar Romero Quotes

1917–1980 El Salvador

Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980) was the archbishop of El Salvador. He was assassinated on 24 March 1980.

El Salvador

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You say that you are Christian. If you are really Christian, please stop sending military aid to the military here [El Salvador], because they use it only to kill my people.

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Óscar Romero (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.