This forces us to recognize the chief sign of the times in all its force and meaning. That sign is Jesus the poor person. We cannot dissociate the condition of the poor and oppressed from the mystery of Christ. Jesus still presents Himself to us as the chief Liberator, and we can recognize him as such. Our option for the poor and oppressed is not one task among many others, it is the key act, and it represents a qualitative leap.
Human brotherhood is at the core of the poor's project.
The poor are the bearers of the message of human solidarity. Solidarity with the poor implies a commitment to turn human love into a collective experience from which there is no turning back. Liberation praxis is the decisive factor in our love for God and in the sanctifying action of the spirit. Liberation seems to express better both the hopes of oppressed peoples and the fullness of a view in which man us seen not as a passive element, but as an agent of history. More profoundly, to see history as a process of man's liberation places the issue of desired social changes in a dynamic context.