Dorothy Day Mean Quotations

So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.