What are the motifs in The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day by Dorothy Day?

Social Activism is a recurring idea. Day was not merely a famous Catholic, but also a famous Catholic Social Activist. Her social activism was always on behalf of the working classes, the poor and dispossessed, the exploited, the sick and the handicapped. However, her philosophy of fighting poverty altered over time. Initially, Day had only vague inclinations towards helping the poor and living with them. When she went to college, she discovered radical social activism and socialist political thought. Day initially wanted to help the poor and to be kind to them. But she realized that she wanted everyone to be kind to one another and advocated a social revolution on behalf of this goal. She also sought not mere palliative approaches to poverty, but revolutionary approaches that would strike the root of poverty and end it before it started.