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God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
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 cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.
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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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Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
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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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