Citas de Grace Lee Boggs

• You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, Responsible

  "Revolution as a New Beginning: an Interview with Grace Lee Boggs". Interview with Adrian Harewood and Tom Keefer, uppingtheanti.org. July 22, 2003.

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• We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Connections, Fabric, World

  James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs (1974). “Revolution and Evolution”, p.44, NYU Press

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• To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/ transform the world, they must change/ transform themselves.

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  Spiritual, Struggle, Philosophical

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• You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Pensar, querer

  "Film Review: ‘American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs’" by Justin Chang, variety.com. June 24, 2013.

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• The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.

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  Care, Way

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• Una revolución basada en el ejercicio de la creatividad del pueblo en medio de la devastación es una de las grandes contribuciones históricas de la humanidad.

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  Creativity, Exercise, People

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• People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Sea, People

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• Construir una comunidad es para el colectivo lo que la práctica espiritual es para el individuo.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Practice, Community

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• 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.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Garden, Community, Levels

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• Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Love Is, Yesterday, Today

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.97, Univ of California Press

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• Ser víctima de la opresión en Estados Unidos no basta para ser revolucionario, igual que salir del vientre de tu madre no basta para ser humano. Las personas llenas de odio e ira contra sus opresores o que sólo ven Nosotros contra Ellos pueden hacer una rebelión, pero no una revolución. Los oprimidos interiorizan los valores del opresor. Por lo tanto, cualquier grupo que alcance el poder, por muy oprimido que esté, no va a actuar de forma diferente a sus opresores mientras no se enfrente a los valores que ha interiorizado y adopte conscientemente valores diferentes.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Mother, Hate, Long

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• Sigue reconociendo que la realidad está cambiando y que tus ideas tienen que cambiar. No te quedes anclado en viejas ideas.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Reality, Ideas, Stuck

  "Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): 'We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World'". www.democracynow.org. October 06, 2015.

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• We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Practice, Cities

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• Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future...It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human being, i.e. a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have - creativity, consciousness and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Responsibility, Past

  "Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century". Book by Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, billmoyers.com. 1974.

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• I think we have to rethink the concept of “leader.” 'Cause “leader” implies “follower.” And, so many- not so many, but I think we need to appropriate, embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Ideas, Leader

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 15, 2007.

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• Habla y escribe de una manera que fomente el intercambio mutuo de ideas y actúa como una comadrona para que la gente dé a luz sus propias ideas.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Inspirational, Writing, Ideas

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• The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.

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  Radical

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• I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet. I think there's a great human desire for solutions, for profound solutions - and that nothing simple will do it. It really requires some very great searching of our souls.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Simple, Pensamiento, Gente

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Cutting, Past, Self

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.79, Univ of California Press

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• Necesitamos urgentemente llevar a nuestras comunidades la capacidad ilimitada de amar, servir y crear para y con los demás. Necesitamos urgentemente devolver al prójimo a nuestros barrios, no sólo a los centros urbanos, sino también a los suburbios, a las urbanizaciones cerradas, a Main Street y Wall Street, y a los campus de la Ivy League.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Wall, Capacity To Love, Cities

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.47, Univ of California Press

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• I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Corazón, Pensamiento, Gente

  "VIDEO: Legendary Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs Turns 100; Watch Never-Before-Aired Interview". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.nationofchange.org. July 1, 2015.

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• When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just the lack of food, shelter, and clothing. Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jesus, Real, Needs

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige (2011). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.60, Univ of California Press

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• I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy.

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  Thinking, People, Soul

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Humanity, Recognizing, Nonviolence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Pensamiento, Gente, Transición

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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