Dorothy Day Quotes
We stand at the present time with the Communists, who are also opposing war.... The Sermon on the Mount is our Christian manifesto.
The communists in America opposed war and thus stood with the conservatives on this point. However, when Hitler attacked Russia, the Communists changed their position and supported American entry into the war. The America First type conservatives were enamored of Fascism, Hitler and Mussolini and some continued to oppose the war, even after we were attacked at Pearl Harbor and Hitler had declared war on the United States.
Dorothy Day, 1897-1980, Anarchist, Reformer and Social Worker, Co-Founder, Catholic Worker, "Our Stand," Catholic Worker, June 1940
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The elder Kennedy was an admirer of Hitler and Fascism and was convinced that democracy was finished in England. As the U. S. Ambassador to England, his views—see also {610124} and {610122}—destroyed his own political career in the United States, and he thereafter kept a low profile and maintained his political aspirations through his children.
There was a Sedition law which made it a Federal felony to encourage anyone not to join or support the military during the First World War. The Socialist Politician and Candidate for President, Eugene Debbs and others, were jailed for less seditious statements. Helen Keller was a remarkable woman who was blind and deaf, and yet she became a great orator and social reformer. The administration died not relish the reaction if they put this popular, blind, deaf woman in jail so she was never charged. The law of course was unconstitutional, but it took years to reach that determination. Until then, the Sedition Act was one of the worst examples of infringement in American history since the original Alien and Sedition Acts of John Adams.
Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic Christian without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical in the American Catholic Church.
