Dorothy Day has been shot at, spat upon, and arrested. In America, the Right-wing denounces her as a Red and the Left accuses her of 'putting Band-Aids on a cancer.' Millions of people mention her name in the same breath as Gandhi's and Schweitzer's; others simply call her a fool, a description she will not deny. She has been shaking up America for 40 years, and she looks forward, not back, in conversation with Jim Douglas Henry.