"A firm resolve
never to profit from,
or allow ourselves
to be suborned by,
positions of power
deriving from privilege,
for to do so, even
passively,
is equivalent to
active oppression.
To be drugged by
the comforts of privilege
is to become contributors
to injustice
as silent beneficiaries
of the fruits of injustice."
Pedro Arrupe,
S.J., Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Men for Others
Talk to Tenth International
Congress of Jesuit Alumni
Valencia, Spain, July 31,
1973.
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