Dorothy Day Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help in the invasion or the long-continuing struggle from the Oriente province down.

  Dorothy Day

  Struggle, Long, Revolution

• If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

  Dorothy Day

  Pain, Believe, Struggle

• We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

  Dorothy Day

  Struggle, Sleep, Reality

  "Month of the Dead". "Catholic Worker", November 1959.

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