Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

There's no need to dress like everyone else. It's much more fun to create your own look.

Popular Topics
Scholar, Success, Inspiring, Afternoon, Acknowledge, Willing, Name, Intelligent, Thing, Thank You, Things, Culture, I Miss You, Funny, Inspiration, Thinking, Humble, Kindness, Philosophy, Perfect Love, Brain, Talent, Positive, Disco, Peace Love, Worry, Nice, Smile, New York, Angry, Living My Life, Organization, Teacher, Passive, Songs, Book, America, Life, Fly, House, Kids, Value Of Life, Body, Creative, Faith, Glory, Ideas, Enthusiast, Dance, Lives
Grace Lee Boggs

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 America 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.

Thinking, America, Ideas, Spark, Folks, Understand
Same Author Quotes

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

Belonging, Change, Responsibility, Responsible, Take, Taking Responsibility

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.

Become, Institutions, Make, Philosophical, Spiritual, Struggle

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.

Connected, Connectedness, Connections, Fabric, Small, World

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

Choose, Live, Think, Thinking, Times, Want

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.

Change, Humanity, People, Sea, Spiritual, Values
Similar Quotes