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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

Source: The Long Loneliness, pt. 1, 1952.
-- Dorothy Day, (Nov 8 1897-1980), US editor, humanitarian, women's rights advocate; She founded the Catholic Workers Movement, 1933.

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