History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes sometimes.
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Apropos of nothing, and just to bore everybody with my strange, existential coincidences, I happened to look at that very page a few days ago. I had been discussing charity, politics, and the limitations of each with a devout Muslim friend in the international relief field, and when Câmara's famous quote came to mind, I wanted to remind myself of its background.
(The conclusion we reached, if anyone's interested, is that power-hungry, money-making bastards have it the easiest, not only in the more obvious ways, but also in terms of figuring out whether whatever they're doing is actually working or not. You're either getting more money and power, or you're not. With politics and charity, who the hell knows?)
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."