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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
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Peace Activist
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Suffragist
Trade Unionist
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Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.
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The sense is always that community is natural to people.
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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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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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What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.
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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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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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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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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
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You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
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I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.
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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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The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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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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Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.
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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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Don't call me a saint I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
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