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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
Autobiographer
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Journalist
Peace Activist
Social Activist
Suffragist
Trade Unionist
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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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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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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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People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
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The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
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It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
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No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
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We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
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Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
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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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Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
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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 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 answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
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We are all one body, we are all one.
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