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
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.
brother together mercy
Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
roots
Freedom has its roots in religion...
peace community-living giving
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
firsts speak conspiracy
First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
curiosity trying goodness
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
sympathy brother believe
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.
catholic church sympathetic
When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.
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.
spiritual reading night
When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
too-much praise feels
Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.
struggle sleep reality
We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.
lonely conversion
A conversion is a lonely experience.