Dorothy Day Quotations

Dorothy Day was an American journalist turned social activist. A pacifist and a devout member of the Catholic Church, she was a co-founder, with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic Worker movement. She authored several books and spoke often in public about faith and social justice.

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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?
- Loaves and Fishes (1963)

The absolutist begins a work, others take it up and try to spread it. Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
- As quoted in Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age (1988), by Daniela Gioseffi, p. 103