Occupation: Activist Birth: May 9, 1877 Death: May 15, 1949
I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society….
What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die..
In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice, the homeless were….
The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off..
The future will be different if we make the present different..
The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars..
The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For wh….
The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor..
If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy..
In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St.….