#in that it couldn't really support the arrogance or singular personalities that flourish in revolutionary spaces

[maiathebee]

But living in community is saving Ammon.  He is learning not to give the ready answer to every problem, not to be surprised at criticism, at the nagging that goes with community life.  He is learning to recognize that all men have their various talents, physical, mental and spiritual. That the vocation of one is not the vocation of all.

Dorothy Day on her friend, at the time a fellow-Catholic Worker and always an activist, Ammon Hennacy, who later of a heart attack that came while picketing the Death Penalty in Salt Lake City.

#I feel like day's descriptions of her non-catholic friends are most revealing #like obviously in this passage he's still catholic #but it's one of the few sections in which she admits to her own critical thoughts on the church #but also it sort of shows why Catholicism and the Catholic worker movement might appeal to her so #in that it couldn't really support the arrogance or singular personalities that flourish in revolutionary spaces #dorothy day #by little and by little #ammon hennacy