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

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About Dorothy Day

Portrait of Dorothy Day

Dorothy May Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.

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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.

No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

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You have to learn to be unafraid when you’re a nobody, because you’re going to be really fucking afraid when you’re a somebody and all the lights are on you.

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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

—Albert Einstein

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There is no such thing as a weird human being, It’s just that some people require more understanding than others.

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