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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
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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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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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We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.
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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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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
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We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
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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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I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
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Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.
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