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Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.

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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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?
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There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
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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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We are all one body, we are all one.
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When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.
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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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I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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It is people who are important, not the masses.
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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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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
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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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A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.
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There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.
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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 is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.
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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
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