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Dorothy Day  

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  • Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 8, 1897. The Catholic Worker movement centers on the idea of providing hospitality for the homeless and needy while remaining committed to the values of poverty, prayer, fighting injustice, and most importantly, nonviolence. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Day, Dorothy (1897-1981)]

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