Consuming Quote by Grace Lee Boggs

“We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that we think having a good job, and consuming like crazy to compensate for the dehumanization of the job, is living like a human being.”

Grace Lee Boggs

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