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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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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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Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?
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When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
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The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
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Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.
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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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A conversion is a lonely experience.
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It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
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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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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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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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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. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.
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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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What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.
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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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Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.
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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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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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An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.
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The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
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