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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
Autobiographer
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Peace Activist
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Suffragist
Trade Unionist
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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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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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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
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The only solution is love.
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I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.
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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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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
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The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.
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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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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.
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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
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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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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
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As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.
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Some can go further than others.
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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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I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?
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