Davey "David" Kirk (March 12, 1935 – May 23, 2007) was an American priest, as well as a civil rights and anti-poverty activist who founded New York City's Emmaus House.
He earned a bachelor's degree in social science in 1957, and a few years later moved to New York to work with Dorothy Day at the Catholic Worker House on the Bowery.
In 1969 David Kirk produced the book Quotations from Chairman Jesus (via Templegate Publishers), which became a bestseller after its release.
It was conceived not as a shelter but as a community for the city’s homeless men and women and was modeled on the Emmaus movement, begun in France after World War II to aid the poor.
Kirk's operation provided long-term housing to more than 70 people, and its community kitchen served 500 lunches a day.
It also offered a variety of programs, from teaching job skills like woodworking to providing social services for drug addicts and persons with AIDS.
He became a member of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship and began to collaborate with Albert J. Raboteau, an African American history professor in New York (and a fellow convert from Catholicism to Orthodoxy).