As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
- Dorothy Day Quote

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
- Dorothy Day Quote

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.
- Dorothy Day Quote

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 Quote

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
- Dorothy Day Quote

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

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
- Dorothy Day Quote

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?
- Dorothy Day Quote

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
- Dorothy Day Quote

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
- Dorothy Day Quote

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
- Dorothy Day Quote

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
- Dorothy Day Quote

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
- Dorothy Day Quote

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
- Dorothy Day Quote