Peace Quotes by Dorothy Day

9 Peace quotes by Dorothy Day

Here are nine Dorothy Day thoughts on peace, each one a concise note from her social‑justice work. The selection is modest, yet it reflects her deep commitment to compassion and solidarity.

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An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love…

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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

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It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

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We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to…

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An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the…

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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting…

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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and…

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What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and…

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We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a…

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Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

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Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as…

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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

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My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to…

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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

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It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

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The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help…

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Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

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A conversion is a lonely experience.

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The sense is always that community is natural to people.

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“We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of…

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