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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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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 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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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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A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.
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I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.
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