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Dorothy Day
Sign in to saveAmerican journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8 November 1897
- Died
- 29 November 1980
- Works
- 39
Top works
- Eleventh Virgin
- On Pilgrimage
- From Union Square to Rome
- Watch For The Light
- Plough Quarterly No. 12 - Courage
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Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- Excuse Me America — self
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1922-04-03
- Active to
- 2019-05-13
Discography
- You're My Thrill1949
- Lullaby Of Broadway1951
- Day Dreams1955
- Day by Day1956
- Day by Night1957
- Cuttin’ Capers1958
- Hooray for Hollywood1958
- Listen To Day1960
- Show Time1960
- What Every Girl Should Know1960
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,914x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,706x
- The Capabilities of Market-Driven Organizations
· 1994 · cited 9,645x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,264x
- <i>Review</i>
: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2
· 2001 · cited 6,093x
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Quotes
- “It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.”
- “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
- “We need always to be thinking and writing about poverty, 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.”
- “A Jewish convert said to me once, "The Communists hate God, and the Catholics love Him. But they are both facing Him, directing their attention to Him. They are not indifferent. Communists are not in so bad a case as those who are indifferent. It is the lukewarm that He will spew out of His mouth."”
- “The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. 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.”
- “We stand at the present time with the Communists, who are also opposing war.... The Sermon on the Mount is our Christian manifesto.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1897-11-08 ) November 8, 1897, New York City , U.S.
- Hometown
- Chicago , Illinois , U.S.
- Died
- November 29, 1980 (1980-11-29) (aged 83), New York City , U.S.
- Resting place
- Cemetery of the Resurrection , New York City
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Encyclopedic overview
Dorothy Day OblSB (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
Day's conversion is described in her 1952 autobiography, The Long Loneliness. Day was also an active journalist, and described her social activism in her writings. In 1917, she was imprisoned as a member of suffragist Alice Paul's nonviolent Silent Sentinels. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement, a pacifist movement that combines direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf. She practiced civil disobedience, which led to additional arrests in 1955, 1957, and in 1973 at age 75.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dorothy Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.