Dorothy Day Quotes

• Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

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• When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

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• The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

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• Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

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• When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

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• We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

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• We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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• We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

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• Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

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• They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

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• The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

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• Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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• It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us – to see Christ in him.

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• I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

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• First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

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• Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

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• We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

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• Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

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• Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

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• Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

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Dorothy Day (28)

Birth:	8th November, 1897
Death:	29th November, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Journalist, Writer

About

Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was an American journalist, social activist, and writer. She became famous after her conversion. This conversion is described in her autobiography, The Long Loneliness. Day's social activism is also described in her autobiography. In 1917 she was imprisoned as a member of suffragist Alice Paul's nonviolent Silent Sentinels. She was also an active journalist, and described her social activism in her writings. As part of the Catholic Worker Movement, Day co-founded the Catholic Worker newspaper in 1931, and served as its editor from 1933 until her death in 1980.

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