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Peter Maurin


Born
France
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Born in Languedoc, France, in 1877. Worked as a peasant. Later lived in Canada. Worked as a tutor. In 1933 he founded the Catholic Worker movement in New York with Dorothy Day. A social activist who started farming communes to relieve unemployment during the Depression. Died in 1949.

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“Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods”
Peter Maurin

“The world would become better off
If people tried to become better.
And people would become better
If they stopped trying to become better off.”
Peter Maurin

“If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.”
Peter Maurin



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