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If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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Peace Activist
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Suffragist
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Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
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What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.
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The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
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When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.
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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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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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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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A conversion is a lonely experience.
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It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.
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We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
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What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.
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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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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'
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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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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
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