When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist. — Cited in Zildo Rocha, Helder, O Dom: uma vida que marcou os rumos da Igreja no Brasil (Helder, the Gift: A Life that Marked the Course of the Church in Brazil), p. 53, Editora Vozes, 2000, . — As quoted in Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear, p. 65.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H%C3%A9lder_C%C3%A2mara