Dorothy Day Quotes

I want to be able to serve people. For that it's important that I'm with them, among them and working for them.

We are all here on earth to help others.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Whether I'm feeding the homeless, stopping by a high school to chat with teens, visiting a prison or local jail, I think that the greatest service you can give is yourself. To be able to help someone who is not in a position to help themselves or possibly ever repay you.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

I only wanted to help my people.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

Poverty was nowhere more endurable than in a country where duty towards one's neighbor, that is, one's fellow-citizen, was practiced with the utmost piety, as a means of gaining the favor of God the King.

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

We do have a moral responsibility to reach out to our neighbors in need.

People are nicer than economists give us credit for. The economists cannot understand why people would work long and hard to clean up a community after a hurricane. … Most economists don’t have any interest in or understanding of psychology.

I came to know God when I was 12, started working in the ministry when I was 13, working in the slum area, living among the poor, loving it, and having this belief that to love the poor I needed to be poor.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I'm here to save someone. I really want to help other people, especially the youth.

I started a student organization that was basically designed to connect students with homeless folks. We visited them and sometimes brought food, but mostly we were there for swapping stories.

I look for good people and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.