<<Talking about the beneficiaries of Entreculturas, we should ask ourselves not only to help them but also to be helped by them. F. Ellacuría always said that to evaluate the quality of a University one should ask how much it helped the poor people of the country and if it permitted to be helped by them” said Sobrino. “Today there is more richness but also more injustice… 2.500 people live on this earth with less than 2 Euros a month. 5.000 people die each day of hunger. This is what I call the sin of the world.”

…“Casaldaliga has spoken about the migrations as a recurrent phenomenon throughout History, but today the recurrent phenomenon is cruelty. We deny the migrants our fraternity; we deny them the land under their feet.” he added.

…“If a little humanity existed, as Leonardo Boff says, it would be enough with 4% of the world’s private fortunes to feed everyone ….Throughout the Christian tradition, it has always been very important to name people, because without a name one is no one. The dead in Congo are real, but they have no name, this is why they do not seem to exist… When they ask me about the Canonization of Monseñor Romero, I ask about the millions of victims, men, women, elderly people and children, thousands of martyrs…”

…“the poor people, seen from within, are the first step to salvation. In them we can see vitality, creativity, building of solidarity, equality. It is not a question of their idealization; it is only a question of accepting there is another world, with other different positive things. We do not seem to realise there is another world with other good things, other possibilities. Because in the world of the victims, success is not equal to goodness… a clue to find a human humanity is to look for it in the world of the lower ones. But why is there salvation in them? There is salvation because it forces us to overcome an evil situation, it forces us to see (since we have pretended not to see), and to hope (with the conviction that it is good to have goodness). Ignacio Ellacuría said it another way: in the poor people there is a light that we can find nowhere else, the poor people make us see our reality like in an inverted mirror, if the First World wants to know its truth, it has to look at itself in the Third World… the world of the poor can do us the big favour of getting to know ourselves better, because it calls us in a different way, and what builds solidarity is to have been called by others.

…“Most important for us is to insert ourselves in the reality of the poor, so that our suffering and pain might be theirs”>>.