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Dorothy Day’s Pacifism

The Power of Nonviolence Writings by Advocates of PeaceThe eighth chapter of The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace contains Dorothy Days short 1936 essay Pacifism. This essay was written three years after she co-founded the pacifist Catholic Worker newspaper, and two years after Hitler was appointed Fuhrer.

Just as the newspaper was founded in response to the constant threat of war breaking out in Europe, the essay made a direct argument against US involvement in European military matters. She starts the essay with a pronouncement:

The Catholic Worker is sincerely a pacifist paper.

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