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“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― audre lorde

“What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.”
― Dorothy Day

“A custom existed among the first generations of Christians, when faith was a bright fire that warmed more than those who kept it burning. In every house then a room was kept ready for any stranger who might ask for shelter; it was even called “the stranger’s room.” Not because these people thought they could trace something of someone they loved in the stranger who used it, not because the man or woman to whom they gave shelter reminded them of Christ, but because—plain and simple and stupendous fact—he or she was Christ.”
― Dorothy Day, Selections from Her Writings

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson