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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.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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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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Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
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The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
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