"It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Editors from the United StatesAnti-war activistsHumanistsJournalists from New York CityAnarcho-pacifists
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
From Union Square to Rome (1938)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day (8 November 1897 – 29 November 1980) was an American journalist turned social activist. A pacifist, anarchist and a devout member of the Catholic Church, she advocated distributism and was a co-founder, with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic Worker movement. She authored several books and spoke often in public about faith and social justice.
51 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Dorothy Day →
Related Quotes
"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with com…"
"Now the creed to which I subscribe is like a battle cry, engraved on my heart - the Credo of the Holy Roman Catholic …"
"A Jewish convert said to me once, "The Communists hate God, and the Catholics love Him. But they are both facing Him,…"
"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 …"
"We stand at the present time with the Communists, who are also opposing war.... The Sermon on the Mount is our Christ…"
"I had a conversation with John Spivak, the Communist writer, a few years ago, and he said to me, "How can you believe…"
"There is now all this patriotic indignation about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Japanese expansionism in As…"
"We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them. A man …"
"Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals…"
"We need always to be thinking and writing about poverty, for if we are not among its victims, its reality fades from …"