My local library has a small cart of discarded and donated books. Chapter 31: “War Is the Health of the State”.Chapter 24: Part Three LOVE IS THE MEASURE.Chapter 3: Introduction by Robert Coles. This edition of The Long Loneliness begins with an eloquent introduction by Robert Coles. Unstinting in her commitment to peace, nonviolence, racial justice, and the cuase of the poor and the outcast, she became an inspiration to such activists as Thomas Merton, Michael Harrinton, Daniel Berrigan, Ceasr Chavez, and countless others. The Long Loneliness chronilces Dorothy Day’s lifelong association with Peter Maurin and the genesis of the Catholic Worker Movement. founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and leader for more than fifty years in numerous battles of social justice.” Here, in her own words, this remarkable woman tells of her early life as a young journalist in the crucible of Greenwich Village political and literary thought in the 1920s, and of her momentous conversion to Catholicism that meant the end of a Bohemian lifestyle and common-law marriage. When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality. The compelling autobiography of a remarkable Catholic woman, sainted by many, who championed the rights of the poor in America’s inner cities.
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