Poverty Quotes by Dorothy Day

9 Poverty quotes by Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day’s nine reflections on poverty echo her activist heart and spiritual conviction. Though limited in number, they provide a clear window into her compassionate advocacy.

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We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

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If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

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If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

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The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of…

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As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to…

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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;…

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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,…

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So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer…

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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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