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Dorothy Day Inspirational Quotes (111)

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You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
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When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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We are all one body, we are all one.
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Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.
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There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'
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I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.
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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
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It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.
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We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
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I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
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An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.
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A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.
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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
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I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.
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I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.
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Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
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Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
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This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.
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