Grace Lee Boggs Quotes, Thoughts and Images

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.

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

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.

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.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy.

What time is it on the clock of the world?

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

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

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

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

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet.

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

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?

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