The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace. - Gustavo Gutiérrez

Faced with the urgency of the Latin American situation, the Church denounces as insufficient those partial and limited measures which amount only to palliatives and in the long run actually consolidate an exploitative system.

The Church cannot be a prophet in our day if she herself is not turned to Christ.

Hence we speak of social revolution, not reform; of liberation, not development; of socialism, not the modernization of the prevailing system. ‘Realists’ call these statements romantic and utopian. And they should, for the rationality of these statements is of a kind quite unfamiliar to them. [https://archive.ph/5miDC<nowiki>]</nowiki>