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- ↑ Dorothy Day The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day, 1952, Curtis Books pbk edition, p.207 (modern editions exist).
- ↑ Dick, Bailey. "The Catholic Worker's Coverage of Civil Rights and Racial Justice." American Catholic Studies 131, no. 4 (2020): 1-31.
- ↑ Klejment, Anne; Coy, Patrick (1988). A Revolution of the heart: essays on the Catholic worker. Temple University Press. pp. 293–294.
