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Dorothy Day was an American journalist and social activist, born on November 8, 1897, and died on November 29, 1980. She is known for her focus on poverty and labor issues and is considered one of the leading figures in the American social justice movement of the 20th century.

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Famous Dorothy Day Quotes

“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.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

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

Ifs Thinking World Wells Looks Care Poor Half

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“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.”

People Thinking Should Enough Christ Son And Love

Book:On Pilgrimage

Source: On Pilgrimage

“The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned.”

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“I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?”

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“I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.”

Thinking Violence Nuclear Eras Non Violence Undefeatable

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“I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'”

Ifs Thinking Mind Turns Cheeks

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“To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!”

Thinking Understanding Christ Virtue Faults Folly

Book:On Pilgrimage

Source: On Pilgrimage

“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.”

Thinking Men Whole Body Women Strong Women

Author:Dorothy Day

“It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Wells Attention Paid Saint Enterprise

Book:House of hospitality

Source: House of hospitality

“Women think with their whole bodies”

Thinking Whole Body

Author:Dorothy Day

“The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

About the Author

Born: November 8, 1897
Died: November 29, 1980
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 196

Books & Sources

On PilgrimageRelated source material

The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy DayRelated source material

All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy DayRelated source material

The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following JesusRelated source material

House of hospitalityRelated source material

Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy DayRelated source material

The Dorothy Day bookRelated source material

The Long LonelinessRelated source material

The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist – A Greenwich Village Journalist's Conversion and Commitment to Peace and JusticeRelated source material

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