Grace Lee Boggs Quotes
Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.
Boggs, Grace Lee. Interview by Bill Moyers. Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, 15 June 2007.
One of the strong motivations of Islamic terrorists is the fact that they believe that a Muslim who dies fighting for Islam goes immediately to Paradise. However, terrorists create Hell for innocent civilians and people who have no desire to harm Islam—in many cases babies and young children who do not even know what religion is. While this statement represents the beliefs of most moderate Muslims, it was made after he was out of office. It is doubtful that an Iranian President—a position without much power in the Iranian theocracy where the religious leader rules—in office would dare say something like this when Iran supports Islamic terrorist organizations throughout the world.
Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she and James Boggs, her husband of some forty years, took their own political direction. By 1998, she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, with Scott Kurashige and published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American Movement.
