"Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them."

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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 scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

— Dorothy Day