Human Rights in El Salvador
We have never preached violence,
except the violence of love,
which left Christ nailed to a cross,
the violence that we must each do to ourselves
to overcome our selfishness
and such cruel inequalities among us.
The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword,
the violence of hatred.
It is the violence of love,
of brotherhood,
the violence that will to beat weapons
into sickles for work.
Archbishop Oscar Romero
November 27, 1977
EL SALVADOR Report from Amnesty International
El Salvador Derechos Humanos (Human Rights)
El Salvador Human Rights Research Links
1999 Human Rights Report for El Salvador -- U.S. State Department
1999 Report on Religious Freedom for El Salvador -- U.S. State Department
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