O Pastor e o Guerrilheiro (2023)

Johnny Massaro: Miguel Souza (João)

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• Zaqueu : This politics thing is...

  Miguel Souza (João) : It's good that we talk about politics. Everything is politics. It's good that we talk about it. I mean... Jesus. Didn't He defended the voiceless and oppressed? Tell me. In which side of this cell He would be?

  Zaqueu : Jesus made a revolution without firing a gun. He changed the world. Just with love.

  Miguel Souza (João) : I don't have pleasure in violence, Zaqueu. But look... Look what they did to me. What other option did I have?

  Zaqueu : Our fight isn't against the flesh. You know who says that, the Bible. Efhesius 6. It's against the rulers of the darkness and the wickedness. You know what that means, João? Your enemy isn't someone like you, or your age, wearing an uniform and that you shoot and kill. Your fight is in here. It's here where the greatest human battles happen.

  Miguel Souza (João) : If your son was sick would you stick with prayers rather than giving him medicine, would you?

  Zaqueu : I could pray, I could fast, I could buy him the most expensive medicine in the world, the difference is that I know that it isn't in my hands. It's all in God's hands.

  Miguel Souza (João) : We're not here because of God's hands, we are here because of the greedness of men. The exploitation of one man over another and the supression of one nation over another. You know where that verse comes from? You don't know it cause it's not in the Bible. It's in the Communist Manifest, Karl Marx. You know what that means? My fight has a cause, has a direction and where my fight wants to go is where you wanna go. Respect. Equality. It's in the Bible, isn't it?

  Zaqueu : Yes, it is.

  Miguel Souza (João) : There you go.

  Zaqueu : Doubt your emotions, João. You could have a wife, kids, a good life.

  Miguel Souza (João) : They killed my wife. They killed my future. But I'll never give up. You know why, Zaqueu? Because the land is for everybody. Isn't it? And when I talk about land I'm not talking about land reform, I'm talking about the planet. Why some people deserve more than others? I'm not gonna wait for what happens after death. That's why I have to make my time here. I have faith on that. Faith on men.

• Zaqueu : What is your faith, then?

  Miguel Souza (João) : I'm a Communist.