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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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Heart
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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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God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
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You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
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