For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.
Dorothy DayRead
We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of love, brotherhood, and caring for the needs of others over revolution and materialism.
In this quote, Dorothy Day expresses a profound desire for human connection, compassion, and the equitable distribution of resources. She suggests that true fulfillment comes not from rebellion but from fostering a sense of brotherhood and helping one another. Day critiques the hypocrisy of those who claim to follow spiritual values while neglecting the poor, advocating instead for a society where love and support for each other are paramount.
Themes
BrotherhoodLoveCompassionNeedsHypocrisy
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about community values.
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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.
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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.
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The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
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We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.
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