This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Douglas Meeks, also M. Douglas Meeks
Economic oppression cannot exist without its religious justifications.
Whitney J. Oates, fully Whitney Jennings Oates
The secular world, particularly in political forms, is finding that it cannot maintain its supremacy without some religious sanction, and consequently is busy manufacturing spurious religious faiths to bolster its own inadequacies.
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National Conference of Catholic Bishops NULL
Poverty is not merely the lack of adequate financial resources. It entails a more profound kind of deprivation, a denial of full participation in the economic, social, and political life of society and an inability to influence decisions that affect one’s life. It means being powerless in a way that assaults not only one’s pocketbook but also one’s fundamental human dignity. Therefore, we should seek solutions that enable the poor to help themselves through such means as employment. Paternalistic programs which do too much for and too little with the poor are to be avoided.
Dignity | Influence | Life | Life | Little | Means | Poverty | Society | Society |
Those words, “temperate and moderate,” are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing moderately good, if not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is a species of vice.
Cowardice | Cunning | Good | Moderation | Temper | Virtue | Virtue | Words | Moderation |
Richard Niebuhr, fully Helmut Richard Niebuhr
The Protestantism which stems from Luther has continued to concentrate its energies upon maintaining the freedom of the Word and has been inclined to yield to political and economic forces in what seem to be purely temporal matters.
Freedom |
Luigi Sturzo, fully Don Luigi Sturzo
Peace is essentially a moral fact, and only subordinately a political fact as a means to the end; peace is above all an act of reconciliation.
Means | Peace | Reconciliation |
William Safire, fully William Lewis Safire
Economic freedom cannot exist without political freedom.
Freedom |
Lord Trent, aka Baron Trent, Sir Jesse Boot, 1st Baronet
As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?
The machine is one of the most compelling rational of human discoveries. The madness is in those who would use a rational thing to further the irrational ends of exploitation and domination.
World Council of Churches NULL
Religious liberty includes freedom to change one’ religion or belief without consequent social, economic and political disabilities. Implicit in this right is the right freely to maintain one’s belief or disbelief without external coercion or disability.
Belief | Change | Coercion | Disbelief | Freedom | Liberty | Religion | Right |