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
reading men order
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
children order evil
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?
fear order enough
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
order trying slavery
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
children order people
To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.
american-activist associates forefront order radical social struggle
My radical associates were the ones who were in the forefront of the struggle for a better social order where there would not be so many poor.
known learned loneliness love solution
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
american-activist common communists held society vision worked
We and the Communists have a common idea that something else is necessary, some other vision of society must be held up to be worked for.
against american-activist basis individual movement prayer revolt
The basis of the liturgical movement is prayer, the liturgical prayer of the church. It is a revolt against private, individual prayer.
firsts speak conspiracy
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.
party rejection movement
My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.
peace community-living giving
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
roots
Freedom has its roots in religion...
brother together mercy
Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.