Creative Quotations from Dorothy Day for Nov 8

[eileenfleming]

One more from DD:

"Writing...is hard because you are giving yourself away, but if you love; you want to give yourself.The sustained effort of writing, of putting [words down while] there are human beings [with] sickness, hunger, sorrowI feel that I have done nothing well, but I did something."

And may we all Do Something, for only in solidarity, do "we have it in our power to begin the world again."-Tom Paine

little sister in JC,

xoxe

[eileenfleming]

More DD:

"Love is not the starving of whole populations. Love is not the bombardment of open cities. Love is not killing......Our manifesto is the Sermon on the Mount, which means that we will try to be peacemakers."

"No one has a right to sit down and feel helpless, there's too much to do."

DD was a Christian Anarchist-she agitated church, state and media, and also my 'mentor' and 'patron saint' of my website:

WeAreWideAwake

[quenuca]

Great quotes, but Dorothy's best known quote, and particularly appropriate for these times, is missing:

"OUR PROBLEMS STEM FROM OUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS FILTHY, ROTTEN SYSTEM"

How true.