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Month: March 1940

1940s | Dorothy Day | Dorothy Day's Writings

Seattle, Portland, and Points South

Dorothy DayByDorothy Day March 1, 1940December 18, 2022

Summary: Lists all the people and groups she visited and spoke to in Seattle and Portland, describing their projects to help the poor and the worker. (The Catholic Worker, March 1940, 1, 4. DDLW #355).

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1940s | Dorothy Day | Dorothy Day's Writings

Hooverville

Dorothy DayByDorothy Day March 1, 1940February 7, 2023

Summary: Tours a town of shacks and learns of their desperate straits. Interviews town residents. Says Christ suffers with them and asks God to have pity on them and us “who permit such things to be.” (DDLW #941).   The Catholic Worker, Mar 1940, p. 5 

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Let us create a society in which it is easier for people to be good.

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“God meant things to be much easier than we have made them.”

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