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 Image
It's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change. We don't realize that that kind of… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world,… — 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
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
Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they… — 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 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
The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government,… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way… — 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
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
