Dorothy Day Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

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  Filosofía, Hombres, Puntos de vista

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• The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned.

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  Creer, Hombres, Pensar

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• Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

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  Glasses, Underestimate, Get Up

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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.

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  Strong, House, Support

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• Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.

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  Brother, Believe, Army

  "The Incompatibility of Love and Violence". "Catholic Worker", May 1951.

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• A conversion is a lonely experience.

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  Lonely, Conversion

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• When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

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  People, Rotten, Communist

  Dorothy Day (2012). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, p.203, Image

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• Las palabras son tan fuertes y poderosas como las bombas, como el napalm.

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  Strong, Powerful, Reality

  Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.444, Image

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• Freedom has its roots in religion.

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  Raíces

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• Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

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  Too Much, Praise, Feels

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• We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.

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  Coffee, Practice, Giving

  Margaret Garvey, Dorothy Day (1982). “The Dorothy Day book”, Templegate Publishers

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• Este es un país tan rico que el lujo se ha desarrollado a expensas de las necesidades, e incluso los indigentes participan del lujo. Somos el país rico del mundo, como Dives en el banquete. Debemos esforzarnos, debemos estudiar para ser pobres como Lázaro en la puerta, que fue acogido en el seno de Abraham.

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  Country, Taken, Luxury

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• Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

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  Brother, Together, Mercy

  "On Pilgrimage".

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• We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

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  Powerful, Fighting, World

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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.

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  Men, Giving, Vision

  "On Pilgrimage". Book by Dorothy Day, January 1970.

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• Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

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  Jesus, Liars, World

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• Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.

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  Kings, Hands, Working Together

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.85, A&C Black

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• Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

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  Names, Mediocrity, Proud

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

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  Thinking, Nuclear, Eras

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• There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

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  Lonely, People, So Sad

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• Some can go further than others.

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• What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

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  Vida cotidiana

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Long, Revolution

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• How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

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  God, Children, Believe

  Dorothy Day (2017). “The Long Loneliness”, p.12, HarperCollins

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• First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

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  Firsts, Speak, Conspiracy

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