Grace Lee Boggs Quotes

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

There were moments where people took the to streets and small rebellions, but ultimately it's a change in consciousness - so how do you capture that and bring the piece to light?

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

There is a hundred times more enthusiasm for this revolution in any café in Paris than there is in all the United States together.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.