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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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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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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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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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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 me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.
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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
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Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.
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I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.
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God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
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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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One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
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A conversion is a lonely experience.
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We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.
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There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.
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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
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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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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
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