I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be. And you do choose how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of… — 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. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think when every household in almost every neighborhood can produce what it needs without going through the market, we're going to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We have to think in a very different sense than the way we think now. We think in terms of quick fixes,… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
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
I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms… — 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
When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms… — 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… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think most people do not imagine how things can change. In Detroit, there are community gardens that are only an indication… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think we have to rethink the concept of “leader.” 'Cause “leader” implies “follower.” And, so many- not so many, but I… — 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 Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I first understood the changes that were necessary in this world, because the waiters in the restaurant, when I cried, used to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
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… — 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
