Dorothy Day

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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?

Dorothy Day (8 November 189729 November 1980) was an American journalist turned social activist. A pacifist and a devout member of the Catholic Church, she was a co-founder, with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic Worker movement. She authored several books and spoke often in public about faith and social justice.


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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?
    • Loaves and Fishes (1963)
  • The absolutist begins a work, others take it up and try to spread it. Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
    • As quoted in Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age (1988), by Daniela Gioseffi, p. 103

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