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"Poverty Is to Care and Not to Care," Catholic Worker (April 1953)
From Union Square to Rome (1938), p. 145
On Pilgrimage (1948), p. 18
8 August 1974
The Duty of Delight (2011)
"On Pilgrimage," Catholic Worker (September 1956)
“The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.”
Interviewed in Time (29 December 1975)
All the Way to Heaven :The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day (2010), p. 81
4 March 1945
The Duty of Delight (2011)
Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista."
Variant translations:
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.
Misattributed
"Our Stand," Catholic Worker (June 1940)
On Pilgrimage (1948), p. 126
"On Pilgrimage," Catholic Worker (December 1971)
"The Incompatibility of Love and Violence," Catholic Worker (May 1951)
Catholic Worker (April 1964)
“It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.”
From Union Square to Rome (1938)
12 February 1959
The Duty of Delight (2011)
“Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.”
As quoted in The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History (1997)
As quoted in The Catholic Worker after Dorothy : Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation (2008) by Dan McKanan
Variante: [Practicing] the works of mercy … is our program, our rule of life.
