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25 quotes by Dorothy Day

Part of a series of articles on Christianity Social Christianity Major figures Francis of Assisi Antoninus of Florence Wilhelm E.F. von Ketteler Pope Leo XIII Adolph Kolping Edward Bellamy Margaret Wedgwood Benn Phillip Berryman James Hal Cone Dorothy Day Toni Negri Leo Tolstoy Óscar Romero Gustavo Gutiérrez Abraham Kuyper Daniel Berrigan Philip Berrigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Walter Rauschenbusch Desmond Tutu Tommy Douglas Joseph Smith, Jr....
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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

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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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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

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Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

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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... →

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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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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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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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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... →

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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

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Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more... →

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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

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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... →

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