Questions for Living

by Hélder Câmara and Dom Helder Camara

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883445581
• ISBN13: 9780883445587
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

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A Brazilian rival to Gandhi or Mandela

Brazilian Bishop Dom Helder Camara is one of the greatest leaders of the global human rights movement. His accomplishments in the peaceful overthrow of military dictatorship in Brazil rival those of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, or Nelson Mandela. Here he answers questions concerning his vision and his tactics for peaceful change toward real compassion. For example: "The main rule, of course, is to absolutely refuse to commit any violence on person's lives or dignity. But there is what we might call a strategy of nonviolent action. This strategy ... is adaptable, depending on the nature of the conflict, and the forces against which the conflict is to be waged. Generally speaking, the strategy of nonviolent action aims to cause the foundations of unjust power to collapse. Oppressive, repressive power rests on resignation, collaboration, and obedience on the part of the people. Nonviolence tries to organize non-collaboration and disobedience by as many people as possible. No power can last long, even by force of arms, against a whole population that refuses to obey it and recognizes another power instead. The strategy also includes a tireless dialogue with half-hearted agents of the unjust power to try to get them to rally to the cause of justice." (p. 92)