Dorothy Day Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Our World, Racism

• We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

  Dorothy Day

  Sight, People, Comfort

• The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

  Dorothy Day

  Life, Giving, Poverty

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.33, A&C Black

• Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

  Dorothy Day

  Mean, Bags, Poverty

• Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

  Dorothy Day

  Writing, Simple, Reality

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