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    “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.”
    Source: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hélder_Câmara

    Hélder Pessoa Câmara (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil.