The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist | 
[Rayna] never met a Christian. This I am sure is literally true.... mingling as we did, in our life together, and in our life apart, with radical groups, we never met any whose personal morality was matched by a social morality or who tried to make life here for others a foretaste of the life to come.
[1917] was a time of constant agitation throughout the world. Perhaps people were looking for leaders... there would be Lenin and Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt, men so dominated by ideas that they sacrificed to them countless millions of human beings. This had been no brief period of revolution. Unlike 1776, 1793, 1848, and 1864, we are now in a world revolution which began in 1917, has continued, and is continuing.
[In Dorothy's senior year of high school, her friend] Kropotkin especially brought to my mind the plight of the poor, of the workers, and though my experience of the destitute was in books, the very fact that The Jungle was about Chicago where I lived, whose streets I walked, made me feel that from then on my life was to be linked to theirs, their interests were to be mine; I had received a call, a vocation, a direction to my life.
Dorothy Day was a non-violent social radical who founded the catholic worker movement. She was and is an inspiration to many activists. This was a book my feminist book club read a couple of years ago. Amazing woman. #shepersisted #marchintoreading @RealLifeReading #feministbookclub
