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Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B. (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert. Day initially lived a bohemian lifestyle before gaining fame as a social activist after her conversion. She later became a key figure in the Catholic Worker Movement and earned a national reputation as a political radical, perhaps the most famous radical in American Catholic Church history.

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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

Basically, Mean, Saint, Seriously, Taken

The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.

Body, Ideas, Member, Paul, Suffering, Teaching

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do. . . . We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

Circles, God, Heart, Love, Nothing, Oasis

Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and disobedience to the State has, over and over again, happened throughout history. It is time again to cry out against our 'leaders,' to question (since it is not for us to say that they are evil) whether or not they are sane.

Evil, Follow, People, Throughout, Voice

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

Anarchist, Man, Men, Philosophy, Start, Views

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much. Yes, I see only too clearly how bad people are. I wish I did not see it so. It is my own sins that give me such clarity.

Burdens, Heart, Love, Sacrifice, Sins, Things

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

Believe, Firmly, Poor, Salvation

Some can go further than others.

Further

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

Crops, Fire, Mercy, Nursing, War

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

Era, Eras, Nuclear, Think, Thinking, Undefeatable

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Man, Men, Seek, Society, Strength

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

Knit, Knitting, Nice, Take, Write, Writing

A conversion is a lonely experience.

Conversion, Experience, Lonely

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

Doubt, Forgiveness, Life, Remove, Seeds, Weed

To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in their thoughts and imaginations at least) to face any kind of suffering when motivated by noble aims like the vague and tremendous concept of freedom. . . Or, in their humility (or sloth - who knows?) men are quite willing to leave decisions to others 'who know more about it than we do.

Eye, Humility, Involved, War

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

Community, God, Ideal, Institutions, Should Have

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

Godlike, Man, Men, Sin

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

Bodies, Body, Strong Women, Things, Thinking, Whole

"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.

Awaken, Faith, Heart, Help, People

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

Brother, Clothing, Feeding, Mercy, Together

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