{"id":2722,"date":"2012-02-02T22:19:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithforward\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2012-02-02T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:25:19","slug":"dorothy-day-a-national-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithforward\/2012\/02\/dorothy-day-a-national-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Day: A National Hero?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>This morning, at the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama named Dorothy Day as a \u201cgreat reformer in American history.\u201d Who woulda thunk it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think President Hoover called her a threat to national security. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the exact quote from the President\u2019s speech:<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t leave our values at the door.\u00a0 If we leave our values at the door, we abandon much of the moral glue that has held our nation together for centuries, and allowed us to become somewhat more perfect a union.\u00a0 Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, Abraham Heschel \u2014 the majority of great reformers in American history did their work not just because it was sound policy, or they had done good analysis, or understood how to exercise good politics, but because their faith and their values dictated it, and called for bold action \u2014 sometimes in the face of indifference, sometimes in the face of resistance.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here\u2019s a quote from our sister, Dorothy Day: \u00a0\u201c<\/em><\/strong>Our problems arise from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.\u201d <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

While we are at it, a few more quotes from Dorothy:<\/p>\n