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
communism has-beens
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
loneliness community answers
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
time evil people
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.
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.
names might facts
We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.
sorrow lasts bitterness
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
kings hands working-together
Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.
nice writing knitting-needles
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
natural planes
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
glasses underestimate get-up
Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.
roots
Freedom has its roots in religion...
party political trying
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
names mediocrity proud
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.
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.