Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day

08-Nov-1897


United States


Journalist

Influenced by Catholicism for years, Dorothy Day converted in 1927. In 1933, she founded The Work Worker, a highly successful Catholic theologian and abolished the Catholic Worker Movement, which resolved social justice issues. The day also helped establish special homes to help those in need. Suku was furious at his time, working for social causes such as pacifism and the demise of women.

QUOTES BY Dorothy Day


"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?"

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

"Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth."

"I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least."

"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."

"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."

"When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it."

"Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!"

"There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods."

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