Dorothy Day
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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
Dorothy Day (8 November 1897– 29 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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- Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
- Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
- I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
- I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
- I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
- If we do not keep indoctrinating, we lose the vision. And if we lose the vision, we become merely philanthropists, doling out palliatives.
- Our common action in the Sacrifice of the Mass, impersonal, anti-individualistic is the best weapon against the world.
- The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
- Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
- We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
[edit] External links
- The Catholic Worker Movement
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Whole Earth: The Way of Love: Dorothy Day and the American Right
- Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Dorothy Day: Church Was Everything to Her
- Dorothy Day’s 109th Birthday!
- Guild For the Canonization of Dorothy Day
