Grace Lee Boggs Quotes About Protest

Quotes about: Protest

• It's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Strong, Government, Ideas

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• I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

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• The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will do things to help people. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking. But with globalization and the weakening of the nation-state, that kind of organizing doesn't work.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Strong, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• We have to think in a very different sense than the way we think now. We think in terms of quick fixes, that solutions will come out of a few protest demonstrations, and calling upon the government to do something. And we can keep trying to do that, and it won't work.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Government, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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