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Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Peace Activist
Social Activist
Suffragist
Trade Unionist
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Brooklyn
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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
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This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.
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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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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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Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
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Women think with their whole bodies
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Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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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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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
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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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Some can go further than others.
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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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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
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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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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
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Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.
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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
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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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