Birthing Quote by Grace Lee Boggs

“Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.” quote by Grace Lee Boggs — Download Open image

“Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.”

Grace Lee Boggs

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

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I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

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I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies…

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I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.

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I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at…

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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 as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding…

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This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

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Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

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We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some…

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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…

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People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a…

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A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of…

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