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
women history god-love
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
heaven bread companionship
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
forever poor undeserving
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
saint communist poor
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
prayer journey goes-on
With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
circles rights ponds
What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.
thinking half world
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
acceptance tyrants rotten
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
success effectiveness worry
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
loneliness being-alone community-living
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
forgiveness weed flower
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
attitude heart neighborhood
There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
agonizing
You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.
writing simple reality
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.