Dorothy Day Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: November 8, 1897 - November 29, 1980
Birthday: November 8
Death: November 29
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.
topic: Mean, Men, Heaven, Instill, Deadly Sins, Laborers
