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
country taken countries-of-the-world
This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.
powerful fighting world
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.
jesus liars world
Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.
integrity men world
The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
thinking half world
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
courage pain world
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
war our-world racism
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.
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...