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
joy mind delight
It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
cities silence noise
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.
communism has-beens
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
trying wit ifs
If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.
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.
phones house acting
Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.
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.
jesus liars world
Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.
love-you god-love persons
Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
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.
powerful fighting world
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.
hands expectations bird
Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.
thinking body whole
Women think with their whole bodies