Hope's statements of promise anticipate the future. In the promises, the hidden future already announces itself and exerts its influence on the present through the hope it awakens.
“The opposite of poverty isn't property. The opposite of both poverty and property is community ... So let us discover our wealth; let us discover our solidarity; let us build up communities; let us take our lives into our own hands, and at long last out of the hands of the people who want to dominate and exploit us.”
“We don’t accuse God because there is suffering in the world. Rather, we protest in the name of God against suffering and those who cause it.”