Dorothy Day vs. Leo Tolstoy

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day

1897 – 1980

Politics
United States
anarchism

Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.

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"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Literature
Russian Empire
literary realism

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

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"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

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Connections

Leo Tolstoy was influenced by Dorothy Day
Shared era: 1897 – 1910