Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Dorothy Day
- 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?
- We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
- Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
- 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.
- There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
- When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.
- We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists ‘of conspiring to teach [us] to do,’ but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.
- The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
- You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it’s right.
- When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent American social activist, journalist, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she initially pursued a career in journalism, writing for various publications. However, her life took a significant turn when she converted to Catholicism in the 1920s.
In 1933, Day, along with Peter Maurin, founded the Catholic Worker Movement, which aimed to address social issues, particularly poverty and inequality, from a deeply Christian perspective. They established “houses of hospitality” where they provided food, shelter, and support to those in need, promoting a philosophy of voluntary poverty and nonviolence.
Day was a tireless advocate for social justice, pacifism, and workers’ rights. Her commitment to these causes led to her arrest multiple times for civil disobedience during protests and demonstrations.
She also wrote extensively, with her autobiography “The Long Loneliness” and her newspaper, “The Catholic Worker,” becoming influential platforms for her ideas. Day’s life and work remain an inspiration for those dedicated to merging their faith with social activism, and she is often considered a candidate for sainthood within the Catholic Church. Her legacy endures as an embodiment of compassion and social conscience in American history.
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