I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
New York has become almost a third-world country. When I was growing up it was mostly a Euro-American country. And it wasn't… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries"… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
