All Grace Lee Boggs Quotes
- 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… Action
- I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge. Beginning
- 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… Children
- 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… Advance
- 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… Bring
- 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… Acquired
- 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? Days
- 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… Advanced
- 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… Alternative
- 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… Among
- 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. Choose
- Don't get stuck in old ideas. Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Change
- What time is it on the clock of the world? Clock
- 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… Able
- 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.… Beings
- Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual. Building
- Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after Day
- Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas. Acts
- The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put. Funny
- 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. Based
- You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it. Any
- We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a… Activities
- 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 is… Achieve
- We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education… Behind
- How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination… Artistry