Quotes by Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs

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

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

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

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

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I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. 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. And I think there’s a great human desire for solutions, for profound solutions – and that nothing simple will do it. It really requires some very great searching of our souls.

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Simple

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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.

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People

Thinking

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 to create solutions to the problems around them.

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I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they’re very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we’ve been evolving on this planet.

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I think we have to rethink the concept of “leader.” ‘Cause “leader” implies “follower.” And, so many- not so many, but I think we need to appropriate, embrace the idea that we are the leaders we’ve been looking for.

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Quotes by Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they’re very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we’ve been evolving on this planet.

I think we have to rethink the concept of “leader.” ‘Cause “leader” implies “follower.” And, so many- not so many, but I think we need to appropriate, embrace the idea that we are the leaders we’ve been looking for.

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