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Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
Autobiographer
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Journalist
Peace Activist
Social Activist
Suffragist
Trade Unionist
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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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If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.
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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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Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.
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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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If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
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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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