--- title: "3 Activist Quotes By Grace Lee Boggs" description: "3 Activist quotes by Grace Lee Boggs. Plus more from Grace Lee Boggs and more Activist sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/grace-lee-boggs-7776_activist_the-image-of-blacks-usually-is-one-of-pe_654.png" --- > [The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/the-image-of-blacks-usually-is-one-of-people-who-are-suffering-from/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/grace-lee-boggs-7776_activist_the-image-of-blacks-usually-is-one-of-pe_654.png) > [One of the things that's very important, when you're an activist and an organizer like me, is to understand that when things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/one-of-the-things-that-s-very-important-when-you-re-an-activist-and/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/307/grace-lee-boggs-7776_activism_one-of-the-things-that-s-very-important_676320.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/people-in-detroit-aren-t-just-urban-gardening-they-re-starting-a-new-2/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/480/grace-lee-boggs-7776_activist_people-in-detroit-aren-t-just-urban-gard_2387741.png) ## Other authors on Activist - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-abhijit-naskar-99.jpg) Abhijit Naskar 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activist/abhijit-naskar/) - [Shannon L. 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Bush 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activist/george-w-bush/) ## More by Grace Lee Boggs > [The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/the-image-of-blacks-usually-is-one-of-people-who-are-suffering-from/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/i-think-that-rebellions-arise-out-of-anger-and-they-re-very-short/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/i-think-that-education-today-is-a-form-of-child-abuse-the-natural/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/i-believe-that-we-are-at-the-point-now-in-the-united-states-where-a/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/i-think-at-the-time-my-radicalization-was-not-through-growing-up/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/we-urgently-need-a-paradigm-shift-in-our-concept-of-the-purposes-and/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/this-capitalist-society-has-not-lasted-forever-it-s-only-a-few/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/building-community-is-to-the-collective-as-spiritual-practice-is-to/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/we-need-to-do-what-i-call-visionary-organizing-recognize-that-in/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/i-think-we-have-to-understand-that-the-nation-state-became-powerful/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/people-are-aware-that-they-cannot-continue-in-the-same-old-way-but/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/a-revolution-that-is-based-on-the-people-exercising-their-creativity/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [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"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/people-in-detroit-aren-t-just-urban-gardening-they-re-starting-a-new/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/i-think-people-are-really-looking-for-some-way-whereby-we-can-grow/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/being-a-victim-of-oppression-in-the-united-states-is-not-enough-to/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activist/grace-lee-boggs/#itemlist", "name": "3 Activist Quotes By Grace Lee Boggs", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. 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