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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Peace Activist
Social Activist
Suffragist
Trade Unionist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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