Grace Lee Boggs Quotes

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change!

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing from our Government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but our communities and our country.

Most politicians will not stick their necks out unless they sense grass-roots support ... neither you nor I should expect someone else to take our responsibility.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.

We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

It is not one government or another that can solve all of the problems. It's you.

What did you do to change the world today?

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.