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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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Peace Activist
Social Activist
Suffragist
Trade Unionist
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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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To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!
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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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How can you see Christ in people? And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.
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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 I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
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Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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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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I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
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If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
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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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It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
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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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A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.
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We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.
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Women think with their whole bodies
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