Dorothy Day: Quotes about people

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“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
People

“What we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the poor, of the destitute--the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words--we can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as our friend.”

Dorothy Day
Love , God , People , World

“The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.”

Dorothy Day

Source: All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day

Love , People

“We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.”

Dorothy Day

"Month of the Dead," Catholic Worker (November 1959)

People , Peace , Religion , Justice

“It is people who are important, not the masses.”

Dorothy Day

Source: The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

People

“People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.”

Dorothy Day
People , Sense , Effort , Time

“When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.”

Dorothy Day

4 March 1945
The Duty of Delight (2011)

People

“When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist.”

Dorothy Day

Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista."
Variant translations:
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.
Misattributed

People

“Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so very loose have become those of "Christian" people.”

Dorothy Day

On Pilgrimage (1948)

People