Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
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Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too apostolic to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community.Ivan Illich
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
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Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.
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At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
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School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
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