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Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?
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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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You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
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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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A conversion is a lonely experience.
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The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
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The only solution is love.
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Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
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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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Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.
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It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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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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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 people who are important, not the masses.
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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
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A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.
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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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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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One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
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