Dorothy Day
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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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- 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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- 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
