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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.

— Dorothy Day

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Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History (1997)

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?

Loaves and Fishes (1963)

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.

The Duty of Delight (2011)

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

The Duty of Delight (2011)

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