A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical… — 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
Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis. — 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
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
One of the things that's very important, when you're an activist and an organizer like me, is to understand that when things… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of… — 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
Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we… — 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because… — 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
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
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
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 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
We're in a very, very profound crisis. It's so obvious that no one in the power structure, either the corporate power structure… — 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 Image
I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. — 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 try to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
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 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 become powerless… — 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 need a… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
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 Image
