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Dorothy Day

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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?


— Dorothy Day


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


— Dorothy Day


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


— Dorothy Day


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


— Dorothy Day


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Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.


— Dorothy Day


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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.


— Dorothy Day


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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.


— Dorothy Day


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As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.


— Dorothy Day


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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.


— Dorothy Day


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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.


— Dorothy Day


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Did you know about Dorothy Day?

Later Day began writing for Catholic publications such as Commonweal and America on the events of that situation around the country. Day was an avid reader as a child. The Catholic Worker lost many subscribers when it took a pacifist stance in World War II Despite Pope John XXIII's excommunication of Castro on January 3 1962 Day traveled to Cuba in late 1962 and praised Castro's "social reforms" in a four-part series in the September October November and December 1962 issues of the Catholic Worker.

Day "believed all states were inherently totalitarian" and was considered to be an anarchist and did not hesitate to use the term. (November 8 1897 – November 29 1980) was an American journalist social activist and devout Catholic convert; Dorothy Day advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism. In the 1930s Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement a nonviolent pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.

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