Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Roman bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo SDB, GCL is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. He openly denounced the brutal Indonesian occupation of his country. In 1996, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with José Ramos-Horta for working "towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor".

Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.
No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.
Justice from Love, and Love from Justice — © Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
Justice from Love, and Love from Justice
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