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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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Suffragist
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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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If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
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We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
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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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Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.
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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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The only solution is love.
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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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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
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We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.
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An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.
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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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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
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People, wherever they are, can make a community.
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When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.
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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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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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As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.
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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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Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
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