Latest Dorothy Day Quotes from Interviews

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• Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.

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  Air, Bird, Feds

• Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

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  People, Have Faith, Enough

• I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

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  Thinking, Mind, Turns

• 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

• Some can go further than others.

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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

• There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

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  Hate, Effort, World

• We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

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  Obligation, Commandments

• It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

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  Men, Sin, Godlike

• Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.

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  Community, Lovable, Made

• 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

• Man is not meant to live alone.

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  Men

  Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.90, Image

• The sense is always that community is natural to people.

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  People, Community, Natural

• People, wherever they are, can make a community.

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  People, Community

• 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

• You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

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  Writing, Way

• 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

• The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'

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  Vatican Ii, Supreme, Conscience

• 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

• These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

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  People, Track, Working Together

• There could be a 'community of communities' rather than a state. They would be united in some way but without any governing body. It would be made up of unions, credit unions instead of banks. There would be no more lending at interest. There would be no more money lenders.

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  Community, Unions, Way

• 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

• A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

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  Dictator, Proletariat, Dictatorship

• 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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  Christian, Country, Brother

• 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