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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?

— Dorothy Day Loaves and Fishes (1963)

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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 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)

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

The Long Loneliness (1952)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

Nina Simone

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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