Dorothy Day Quotes About War

• 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.

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  War, Our World, Racism

• I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.

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  Jesús, Guerra, Creer

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.51, A&C Black

• Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

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  War, Hero, Men

• 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.

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  War, Nursing, Fire

• We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.

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  Children, War, Believe

• Intentar detener la guerra poniendo ante los ojos de los hombres el terrible sufrimiento que conlleva nunca tendrá éxito, porque los hombres están dispuestos (al menos en sus pensamientos e imaginaciones) a enfrentarse a cualquier tipo de sufrimiento cuando están motivados por objetivos nobles como el vago y tremendo concepto de libertad... O, en su humildad (o pereza, ¿quién sabe?), los hombres están dispuestos a dejar las decisiones en manos de otros "que saben más que nosotros".

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  War, Humility, Eye

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