Originally Posted by
SWMAP
I have never seen that quote by Dorothy Day and it seemed so unlike her that I looked it up. This from the National Catholic Reporter 04-16-12:
"This is Dorothy Day’s most famous quote. The problem is that she probably never said it.
I was unaware of any controversy until I read a letter in the summer 2008 issue of The RoundTable, a journal published by the St. Louis Catholic Worker community. Bill Barrett, an old friend and my contemporary at the New York Worker, commented on the fact that the “filthy, rotten system” line was mentioned four times in a previous issue.
“Dorothy hated to hear that quoted back to her,” he wrote, and insisted that she would not even allow the poster in question in the house."
If you read the article you will see that day once did refer to capitalism in an inteview as a "lousy system" - is that what you meant?
Capitalism is a lousy system [[What Dorothy day really said) or criminal justice is a filthy rotten system?