People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
One day some Jewish refugees came to me, as a man of God, asking for shelter, and I hid them. Then I learned how to forge identity papers and finally, as the arrests became more frequent, I smuggled Jews out of the country, into Switzerland and Spain, with the help of mountain guides.
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
Young people must remember three things: they are fore-doomed to know everything, foredoomed to new ways of sharing and foredoomed to have time on their hands, time they must transform from idleness into creative activity. It is in these three lines of force that their hope lies.
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
