Dorothy Day Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Community Living

• I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, People, Community

• The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

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  Community, Battle, Goes On

• The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.

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  Philosophy, Artist, Men

• There could be a 'community of communities' rather than a state. They would be united in some way but without any governing body. It would be made up of unions, credit unions instead of banks. There would be no more lending at interest. There would be no more money lenders.

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  Community, Unions, Way

• People, wherever they are, can make a community.

  Dorothy Day

  People, Community

• God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

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  Should Have, Community, Institutions

• It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

  Dorothy Day

  Peace, Community Living, Giving

• The sense is always that community is natural to people.

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  People, Community, Natural

• Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.

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  Community, Lovable, Made

• The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

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  Loneliness, Community, Answers

  Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.184, Image

• And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

  Dorothy Day

  Husband, Children, Loneliness

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