Dorothy Day Quotes

The Communists in Cuba didn’t assist Castro in his revolution. They weren’t on the side of the students. They didn’t do anything to help in the invasion or the long-continuing struggle from the Oriente province down.

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,… but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man’s dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

Every Marxist group that I’ve known has its theoreticians.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it’s a question of living one’s life in a drastically different way.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

You see I’m such a fool that I’m never afraid of appearing foolish.

Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.