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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.

— Dorothy Day The Duty of Delight (2011)

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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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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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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

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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When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

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