Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
Dorothy DayCommon sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
Dorothy DayIt is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
Dorothy DayThe works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.
Dorothy DayWhere are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?
Dorothy Day