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Dorothy Day

Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

November 08, 1897

Died

November 29, 1980

Website

http://www.cjd.org/brochure.html

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

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Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic Christian without in any way abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical in the American Catholic Church. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.

A revered figure within the U.S. Catholic community, Day's cause for canonization was recently open by the Catholic Church.
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	The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist – A Greenwich Village Journalist's Conversion and Commitment to Peace and Justice 4.02 avg rating — 5,662 ratings — published 1952 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Therese: A Life of Therese of Lisieux really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 640 ratings — published 1960 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus 4.23 avg rating — 599 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement by Dorothy Day, Robert Coles (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 544 ratings — published 1983 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day by Dorothy Day, Robert Ellsberg (Editor) 4.39 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Pilgrimage 4.01 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Union Square to Rome 4.12 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1938 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day by Dorothy Day, Robert Ellsberg (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Maurin: Apostle to the World by Dorothy Day, Francis J. Sicius (Contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meditations by Dorothy Day, Stanley Vishnewski (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1970 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
― Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist – A Greenwich Village Journalist's Conversion and Commitment to Peace and Justice

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“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

tags: catholic, inspirational, revolution

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“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
― Dorothy Day

tags: problems, social-justice, society

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