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The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

Dorothy Day

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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
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Loneliness

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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
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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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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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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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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
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Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
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A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
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We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.
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The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.
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I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.
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The only solution is love.
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You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
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The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.
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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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We are all one body, we are all one.
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It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
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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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