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There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

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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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Brooklyn
New York
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Neighborhoods
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The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
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A conversion is a lonely experience.
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Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
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We are all one body, we are all one.
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Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.
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It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.
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I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in 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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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
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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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Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
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Don't call me a saint I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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