Dorothy Day Quotes - Page 5

• The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

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  Fall, Way To Live, Bottom

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Giving, Special

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• Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

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  Hard Work, Writing, Want

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• We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.

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  Cities, Silence, Sound

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• We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.

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  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, People

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Saint, Attention

  Dorothy Day (1939). “House of hospitality”

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• As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

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  Giving Up, Bears, Injustice

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• 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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  Guerra, Héroe, Hombres

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• We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

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  Ideas, Foundation, Liturgy

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

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  Should Have, Community, Institutions

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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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  Thinking, Catholic, Church

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• 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.

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  Strength, Men, Society

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• Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

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  Phones, House, Acting

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• Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred; that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.

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  Cristiano, País, Hermano

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• The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.

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  Philosophy, Artist, Men

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• Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

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  Men, Way, Steps

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• Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

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  Mean, Bags, Poverty

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• La Revolución Sexual es una completa rebelión contra la autoridad, natural y sobrenatural, incluso contra el cuerpo y sus necesidades, sus funciones naturales de tener hijos. Esto no es reverencia por la vida, es una gran negación y se parece más al Nihilismo que a la revolución que creen estar promoviendo.

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  Children, Thinking, Nihilism

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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.

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  Sympathy, Brother, Believe

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• And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

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  Husband, Children, Loneliness

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• 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.

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  Teaching, Ideas, Suffering

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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.

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  Reading, Men, Order

  "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", December 1968.

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• Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

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  Order, Trying, Saint

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.4, A&C Black

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• 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

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• It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

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  Communism, Has Beens

  "From Union Square to Rome". Book by Dorothy Day, 1938.

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