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Don't call me a saint I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.
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What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?
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It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.
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It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.
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Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
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Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.
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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
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The only solution is love.
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
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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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Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
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