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If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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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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A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.
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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
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God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
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People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
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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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There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.
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