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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?

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
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Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
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The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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