Dorothy Day Quote

How many thousands, tens of thousands [of prisoners], are in for petty theft, while the 'robber barons' of our day get away with murder. Literally murder, accessories to murder. "Property is Theft." Proudhon wrote—The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor. The early Fathers wrote—The house you don't live in, your empty buildings (novitiates, seminaries) belong to the poor. Property is Theft.

"On Pilgrimage," Catholic Worker (December 1971)