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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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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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The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
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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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To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.
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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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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
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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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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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Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.
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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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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
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Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
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I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?
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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
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What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?
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Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
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It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
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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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You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
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