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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. During her life, dorothy day refused to let people dismiss her as a saint eileen egan, dorothy day and the permanent revolution, p. Before i dive right into the work, i want to tell a story. The long loneliness, that such chores helped develop in her an appreciation for the value of work well done. Important new edition of dorothy day s acclaimed autobiography. Unstinting in her commitment to peace, nonviolence, racial justice, and the cuase of the poor and the outcast, she became an inspiration to such activists as thomas merton, michael harrinton, daniel berrigan. Every wednesday at the end of supper, we pray to god that the church recognize the holiness of dorothy day, servant. Her book is an absorbingly wellwritten series of pictures of her work and that of those she has gathered around her connection with the catholic worker, its hospitality house and its community farm. For the american plant physiologist, see dorothy day plant physiologist. Dorothy day november 8, 1897 november 29, 1980 was an american journalist, social activist, and catholic convert. A permanent revolution had been initiated by dorothy s leadership, grounded in the sermon on the mount for which she had prayed, spoken, written.
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