"Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper...But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place?...Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?" --- Dorothy Day who died in November, 1980.
To me she was like the woman who lived by the river and kept fishing drowning people out of the water. She soon decided to go upstream to stop those who were throwing the people into the river.
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