A frequently used line across Dorothy Day's columns in the 60s is a quote from Peter Maurin, that we ought to be working for the kind of society where it is easier for people to be good.

I love this line. I think it gets at something I have long been interested in: how do you get people to make selfless decisions? To work for the good of others over their own self-interest? Framing it in this way—building the kind of society that makes it easier for people to do good—is the right angle. It's about cultivating the context that inspires and enables selflessness and generosity. It's a recognition that we are bound up in systems that shape our behaviour.

In one column in 1962, Day bluntly states that we deny Christ by not working for this kind of society where it is easier for people to be good. For her, the way of Jesus is found in identifying with the poor and the oppressed, working for justice, and nonviolence.