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The agency was in trouble, it was in disarray. The history is important, not only to this administration and this board. It's important to see from where we've come.


Dorothy Ellington

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DOROTHY DAY We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fund...
DOROTHY DAY When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups...
DOROTHY DAY We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
DOROTHY DAY We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest ...
DOROTHY DAY It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and s...
DOROTHY DAY Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
DOROTHY DAY Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is...
DOROTHY DAY I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
DOROTHY DAY Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom...
DOROTHY DAY Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
DOROTHY DAY Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinat...
DOROTHY DAY Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a whi...
DOROTHY DAY Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
DOROTHY DAY Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
DOROTHY DAY As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the othe...
DOROTHY DAY They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
DOROTHY DAY We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this ...
DOROTHY DAY The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution whi...
DOROTHY DAY The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
DOROTHY DAY To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
DOROTHY THOMPSON If I were white, I could capture the world.
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE