Talk:Dorothy Day

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 * Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.


 * Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.


 * 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.


 * I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.


 * 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.


 * If we do not keep indoctrinating, we lose the vision. And if we lose the vision, we become merely philanthropists, doling out palliatives.


 * Our common action in the Sacrifice of the Mass, impersonal, anti-individualistic is the best weapon against the world.


 * Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.


 * Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.


 * The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.