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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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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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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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The diocesan papers are full of stories about atrocities in China and the sufferings of the Church and I get a letter from Betty Chang from Tientsin about the communes and the full-employment, etc. When we see the migrant camps, and our factories in the fields, our system does not offer much.
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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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We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.
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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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The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
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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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Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.
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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 travelers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry. My prayer from day to day is that God will so enlarge my heart that I will see you all, and live with you all, in His love.
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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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"What do you mean by anarchist-pacifist?" First, I would say that the two words should go together, especially … when more and more people, even priests, are turning to violence, and are finding their heroes in Camillo Torres among the priests, and Che Guevara among laymen. The attraction is strong, because both men literally laid down their lives for their brothers. "Greater love hath no man than this." "Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." Che Guevara wrote this, and he is quoted by Chicano youth in El Grito Del Norte.
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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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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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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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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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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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Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.'
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We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.
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A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
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How many thousands, tens of thousands [of prisoners], are in for petty theft, while the 'robber barons' of our day get away with murder. Literally murder, accessories to murder. "Property is Theft." Proudhon wrote—The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor. The early Fathers wrote—The house you don't live in, your empty buildings (novitiates, seminaries) belong to the poor. Property is Theft.
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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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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson
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Born:
November 8, 1897
Died:
November 29, 1980
(aged 83)
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Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B., was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert.
Known for:
The Long Loneliness
Loaves and fishes (1963)
The duty of delight
Peter Maurin
The eleventh virgin (1924)
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