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Dorothy Day

Read through the most famous quotes from Dorothy Day




Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.


— Dorothy Day


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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.


— Dorothy Day


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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.


— Dorothy Day


#death #earth #faith #firmer #flesh

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.


— Dorothy Day


#body #enough #must #soul

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.


— Dorothy Day


#committees #communist #congressional #conspiracy #first

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


— Dorothy Day


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


— Dorothy Day


#cannot #lay #must #see #step

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


— Dorothy Day


#clothing #feeding #mercy #must #our

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.


— Dorothy Day


#arms #eating #famine #fighting #money

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.


— Dorothy Day


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Did you know about Dorothy Day?

Later Day began writing for Catholic publications such as Commonweal and America on the events of that situation around the country. Day was an avid reader as a child. The Catholic Worker lost many subscribers when it took a pacifist stance in World War II Despite Pope John XXIII's excommunication of Castro on January 3 1962 Day traveled to Cuba in late 1962 and praised Castro's "social reforms" in a four-part series in the September October November and December 1962 issues of the Catholic Worker.

Day "believed all states were inherently totalitarian" and was considered to be an anarchist and did not hesitate to use the term. (November 8 1897 – November 29 1980) was an American journalist social activist and devout Catholic convert; Dorothy Day advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism. In the 1930s Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement a nonviolent pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.

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