Dorothy Day Community Quotations

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

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.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.