Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B.,was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth8 November 1897
CityNew York City, NY
believe poor salvation
I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
affair messy haphazard
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
way should ifs
We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.
morning angel night
Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.
men brotherhood-of-man people
We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.
love solutions
The only solution is love.
trying wit ifs
If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.
ponds deeds want
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.
peace down-and too-much
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
prayer believe people
Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?
writing simple reality
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
relationship dream action
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
mistake play safe
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
strong-women thinking body
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.