Dorothy Day
Activist
1897-11-08
Books by Dorothy Day
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The Long Loneliness
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By little and by little
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Quotes by Dorothy Day
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
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Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
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We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
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As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
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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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The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
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We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
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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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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.
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