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Children Quotes by Dorothy Day

10 Children quotes by Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day’s ten brief quotes on children blend compassion with a call for fairness. She highlights the moral stakes of nurturing young lives in a world of inequality, offering a concise yet powerful reminder of the ethical dimensions of parenting and community.

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How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name…

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As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt…

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True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

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To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

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To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people…

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We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the…

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The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions…

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An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the…

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And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are…

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Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life…

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We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from…

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“Now don't think I've lost my mind - but I'll tell you, I'll look at some of the cards I have, some of Van…

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Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

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Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as…

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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

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My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to…

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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

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It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

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The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help…

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Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

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A conversion is a lonely experience.

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The sense is always that community is natural to people.

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“We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of…

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