Grace Lee Boggs Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• I think we’re not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America". "The Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. June 15, 2007.

• The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• New York has become almost a third-world country. When I was growing up it was mostly a Euro-American country. And it wasn't until LaGuardia was elected in 1933 that Italians were even considered Americans. We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Country, New York, Growing Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I think most people do not imagine how things can change. In Detroit, there are community gardens that are only an indication that the country is coming back to the city. And that is something that actually is necessary to stop the real imminent danger of the extermination of our planet.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Country, Real, Garden

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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