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Dorothy Day: photographer unknown, 1934 (New York World Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress)
The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.
-- Dorothy Day (1897-1980), from Loaves and Fishes, 1967
But I am sure that God did not intend that there be so many poor. The class structure is of our making and our consent, not His. It is the way we have arranged it, and it is up to us to change it. So we are urging revolutionary change.
-- from "Poverty Is to Care and Not to Care," Catholic Worker, April 1953
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me. (2 March 1945)
I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance. (8 August 1974)
-- from The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, ed. Robert Ellsberg, 2008
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-- from The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day, 1952
Dorothy Day: photographer unknown, 1916 (Corbis)
Young Dorothy Day: photographer unknown, n.d. (courtesy of Jim Forest)
Dorothy Day with Rose and Walter Carmen on the beach, Chicago: photographer unknown, 1923 (courtesy of Jim Forest)
Dorothy Day sweeping: photographer unknown, n.d.(courtesy of Jim Forest)
Dorothy Day with daughter Tamar(b. 1926): photographer unknown, n.d.(courtesy of Jim Forest)
What Price Love? one of Dorothy Day's serialized novels, written for sustenance during her daughter Tamar's infancy, Chicago Herald and Examiner: image courtesy of Jim Forest
Dorothy Day letter to Llewellyn Jones, literary editor, Chicago Evening Post, 25 May 1925: image courtesy of Jim Forest
Dorothy Day letter to Llewellyn Jones, literary editor, Chicago Evening Post, Labor Day 1926: image courtesy of Jim Forest
When Dr. Stern wanted to know whether I was an alcoholic, when Dwight Macdonald asked me seriously whether I drank longshoremen under the table -- I can only confess that yes, I did "fling roses with the throng." (22 April 1958)
-- from The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, ed. Robert Ellsberg, 2008
Dorothy Day reading: photo courtesy of Jim Forest, n.d., from Jim Forest: All Is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day, 2011 (via Catholic Worker Journal)
Dorothy Day: photographer unknown, n.d.(courtesy of Jim Forest)
Dorothy Day participates in peace demonstration, New York City: photographer unknown, 17 April 1959 (courtesy of Jim Forest)
Refusing to take shelter, Dorothy Day participates in civil defense drill protest at City Hall Park, Manhattan; Ammon Hennecy, carrying a picket sign, is behind her: photo by Mottke Weissman, 1960, from Dorothy Day: Loaves and Fishes, 1967 (courtesy of Jim Forest/Catholic Worker Archive, Marquette University)
Dorothy Day at draft card burning, Union Square, New York City.: photographer unknown, 3 November 1965 (courtesy of Jim Forest)
Dorothy Day at Catholic Worker in Manhattan: photo by Meyer Liebowitz for New York Times, 1972 (courtesy of Jim Forest)
Cesar Chavez, Coretta Scott King, Dorothy Day: photographer unknown, c. 1973 (courtesy of Jim Forest)
Dorothy Day, United Farm Workers protest, Lamont, California, 1973: photographer unknown, 1973 (courtesy of Jim Forest)
Dorothy Day, age 75, with the dress she wore during her last time in jail, a ten-day stay following arrest during protest to support the efforts of Cesar Chavez to provide justice for farm laborers in the fields of California; dress is signed by fellow inmates: photo by Jack Payden-Travers, 1973 (courtesy of Jim Forest)
Dorothy Day's last meeting with Mother Teresa, in Dorothy's room at Maryhouse in Manhattan, the year before her death; Eileen Egan is on the left: photo by Bill Barrett. 17 June 1979 (courtesy of Jim Forest /Marquette University Archives)
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