Caux meeting, 14 August 1980

English translation. 5-17 August 1980: "International Youth Assembly: Tomorrow, our responsibility". Themes:
"Liberation. Full freedom will always be a struggle: externally, against dictatorship, conformity, injustice, deprivation; internally, against fears, tensions, hatreds, selfish ambitions.
Resources: there is not enough for everyone's greed, but there could be enough for everyone's needs. The resource problem is not so much caused by scarcity as by excessive consumption and unfair distribution."
"Poverty: yes to practical action to feed, house, educate the destitute multitudes; but not forgetting that it will take as much dedication and compassion to heal the haves from their spiritual poverty."
"Power - true leadership is born of the desire to serve, not the lust for power. We who despair of success in our efforts to solve the world's problems, rediscover the divine power that transforms and inspires man.