Quotes from Dorothy Day
Freedom has its roots in religion.
- Dorothy Day
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
- Dorothy Day
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.
- Dorothy Day
If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
- Dorothy Day
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
- Dorothy Day
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
- Dorothy Day
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.
- Dorothy Day
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
- Dorothy Day
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.
- Dorothy Day
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
- Dorothy Day
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
- Dorothy Day
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
- Dorothy Day