Who listed Dorothy Day as an exemplary American?
President Ronald Reagan
Martin Luther King Jr.
Pope Francis
President John F. Kennedy
Answer
Pope Francis listed Dorothy Day as an exemplary American in 2015. He described her as "a woman of great faith and courage" and praised her work with the poor and homeless. Day was a Catholic social activist who founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933. She was also a pacifist and an advocate for nonviolence.
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