Grace Lee Boggs Quotes

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• We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change…
• I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.
• How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up…
• History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or…
• We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to…
• When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just…
• The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?
• Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for…
• People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision…
• I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that…
• You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be. And you do choose how you think.
• Don't get stuck in old ideas. Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change.
• What time is it on the clock of the world?
• It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
• To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings.…
• Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.
• Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after
• Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
• The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.
• A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

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