Dorothy Day Quotes
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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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My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.
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Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
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We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
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Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.
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I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky … by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.
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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
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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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Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so very loose have become those of 'Christian' people.
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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
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First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
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It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
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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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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
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When Dr. Stern wanted to know whether I was an alcoholic, when Dwight Macdonald asked me seriously whether I drank longshoremen under the table - I can only confess that yes, I did 'fling roses with the throng.'
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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.