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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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If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
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A conversion is a lonely experience.
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We are all one body, we are all one.
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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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Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
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