Grace Lee Boggs Quotes
We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.
Boggs, Grace Lee. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. University of California Press, 2011, p. 74.
building brain injury treatment facilities on military bases to care for wounded soldiers. Fisher raised the money and built several major medical facilities on military bases while Congress was in Gridlock over raising and reforming taxes desired by the Democrats and cutting of government spending desired by the Republicans with no compromise as a large proportion of the Republicans had signed a pledge never to vote for increased taxes regardless of the need and the Democrats would not make all the cuts that would affect the poor, ill, and middle class unless there was a balance with raising taxes.
of the Civil Rights Movement
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.
