Dorothy Day
"The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on."
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"The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on."
"لقد انتُصر في المعركة القانونية ضد الفصل العنصري، لكن معركة المجتمع ما زالت مستمرة."
Dorothy Day
"We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world."
"نحن الأمة الأقوى والأكثر تسليحاً، ونحن من يمدّ بقية العالم بالسلاح والمال حيث لا نخوض نحن القتال. نأكل ونشبع بينما يجتاح الجوع بقية العالم."
Dorothy Day
"I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers."
"أرى أنه يجب علينا أن نمد أيدينا إلى إخوتنا، دون أن نخفف من حدة خلافاتنا الجوهرية، بل أن نلتقي بهم حين يطلبون اللقاء، حاملين لهم برهان إيماننا، ومفعمين في الوقت ذاته بمودة أخوية صادقة تجاههم."
Dorothy Day
"Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them."
"الحب يطرد الخوف، لكن علينا أن نتجاوز الخوف أولاً لنقترب بما يكفي من المحبوب."
Dorothy Day
"Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do."
"تُفكر المرأة بكيانها كله، وتنظر إلى الأم"
Dorothy Day
"It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him."
"أيسرُ أن نؤمن بأن الله سيعضد كل بيت ضيافة ومزرعة جماعية، ويسد حاجاتنا من طعام ومال لتسديد الفواتير، من أن نحافظ على إيمان قوي، حيّ، نابض في كل فرد من حولنا – فنرى المسيح فيه."
Dorothy Day
"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."
"غذاء الجسد وحده لا يكفي، فلا بد من غذاء للروح."
Dorothy Day
"Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling."
"إيماننا أقوى من الموت، وفلسفتنا أرسخ من الجسد، وانتشار ملكوت الله على الأرض أسمى وألزم."
Dorothy Day
"Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action."
"لقد بدأ الرجال يدركون أنهم ليسوا مجرد أفراد منعزلين، بل أشخاص فاعلون في مجتمع؛ وأن الإنسان وحده ضعيف تائه، وأن عليه أن يلتمس القوة في العمل المشترك."
Dorothy Day
"One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time take one step at a time we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment."
"من أعظم شرور هذا الزمان بين من هم خارج السجون هو إحساسهم بالعبث. يقول الشباب: ما جدوى جهدنا الضئيل؟ لا يدركون أن علينا أن نضع لبنة تلو لبنة، وخطوة تلو خطوة، ولا يمكننا أن نكون مسؤولين إلا عن الفعل الواحد في اللحظة الراهنة."
Dorothy Day
"No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do."
"ليس لأحدٍ أن يستسلم لليأس ويقعد، فالعمل كثيرٌ ينتظرنا."
Dorothy Day
"There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful."
"هناك أمران ينبغي أن تعرفهما عن الفقراء: أنهم غالبًا ما تفوح منهم رائحة، وأنهم ناكرون للجميل."
Dorothy Day
"Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy."
"كل ما يفعله المعمّد يوميًا يجب أن يكون مرتبطًا بشكل مباشر أو غير مباشر بأعمال الرحمة الجسدية والروحية."
Dorothy Day
"Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily."
"لا تدعني قديسًا. لا أريد أن أُصرف بهذه السهولة."
Dorothy Day
"If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when they placed my child in my arms."
"لو أنني كتبت أعظم كتاب، أو ألفت أروع سيمفونية، أو رسمت أجمل لوحة، أو نحتُّ أبهى تمثال، لما شعرتُ قط بمثل هذا السمو الخالق الذي غمرني حين وضعوا طفلي بين ذراعيّ."
Dorothy Day
"We were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in. We were just sitting there talking when lines of people began to form saying, "We need bread."... If there were six small loaves and a few fishes, we had to divide them. There was always bread. We were just sitting there talking and people moved in on us. Let those who can take it, take it. Some moved out and that made room for more. And somehow the walls were expanded. We were just sitting there talking and someone said, "Let's all go live on a farm."It was as casual as all that, I often think. It just came about. It just happened."
"كنا نجلس هناك نتحدث حين دخل بيتر مورين. كنا نجلس هناك نتحدث حين بدأت صفوف الناس تتشكل قائلة: "نحن بحاجة إلى خبز."... لو كان هناك ستة أرغفة صغيرة وبضع سمكات، كان علينا أن نقسمها. كان الخبز متوفراً دائماً. كنا نجلس هناك نتحدث فانضم إلينا الناس. فليأخذها من يستطيع تحملها. غادر البعض وهذا أفسح المجال للمزيد. وبطريقة ما، اتسعت الجدران. كنا نجلس هناك نتحدث فقال أحدهم: "دعونا نذهب جميعاً للعيش في مزرعة." كان الأمر عفوياً إلى هذا الحد، غالباً ما أفكر. لقد حدث للتو. لقد وقع للتو."
Dorothy Day
"Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed."
Dorothy Day
"I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His purposes, serve His goodness, because they have read a book, even one written by an atheist, and have been moved, or because they have wanted to be fair all their lives, but have never stepped in a church, from those who have heard God's words in church or read His words in the Bible and become convinced by them."
Dorothy Day
"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."
Dorothy Day
"The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that-- and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible-- and so were lots of us."
Dorothy Day
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