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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.
— Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
journalist, writer, social activist, editor, trade unionist, peace activist, autobiographer, suffragist, feminist
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1897 – 1980
Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
All Quotes by 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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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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It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
— Dorothy Day
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There is now all this patriotic indignation about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Japanese expansionism in Asia. Yet not a word about American and European expansionism in the same area.... We must make a start. We must renounce war as an instrument of policy.... Even as I speak to you I may be guilty of what some men call treason.... You young men should refuse to take up arms. Young women tear down the patriotic posters. And all of you — young and old — put away your flags.
— 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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I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky … by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
— Dorothy Day
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If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.
— Dorothy Day
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
— Dorothy Day
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Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.
— Dorothy Day
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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
— Dorothy Day
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
— Dorothy Day
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It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
— Dorothy Day