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Dorothy Day Quotes about Reality

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Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Dorothy Day
Writing, Simple, Reality

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Dorothy Day
Fear, Reality, Order

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

Dorothy Day
Strong, Powerful, Reality
Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.444, Image

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
Struggle, Sleep, Reality
"Month of the Dead". "Catholic Worker", November 1959.

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