203 Quotes by Dorothy Day

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

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

To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.