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Peter Maurin

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France

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Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Politics

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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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Average rating: 4.31 · 61 ratings · 6 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Easy Essays 4.31 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forgotten Radical by Peter Maurin, Lincoln Rice (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catholic Radicalism 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radical Christian Thought: Easy Essays by Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day (Preface) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Easy Essays [cover title]: Radical Christian Thought: Easy Essays it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Befriending the Text: Easy Essays on Peace and Justice (Parish Pamphlet Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radicals of the right 1936 [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The green revolution : [easy essays on Catholic radicalism] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	CATHOLIC RADICALISM: Phrased Essays for the Green Revolution 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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“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

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“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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