Living for change

Theme:

Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs, an autobiography of a remarkable woman dedicated her life to social justice. She also transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Although her ideas initially focused on revolution, Boggs promoted personal transformation, reflection, and community organizing rather than violence.

Famous Quotes:

“I am often asked what keeps me going after all these years. I think it is the realization that there is no final struggle. Whether you win or lose, each struggle brings forth new contradictions, new and more challenging questions. As Alice Walker put it in one of my favorite poems: I must love the questions themselves as Rilke said like locked rooms full of treasures to which my blind and groping key does not yet fit.1”

“Look on yourself as a citizen in a kingdom of persons, he advised. Act always as if the maxim of your action could become a universal law, always treating mankind, as much in your own person as in that of another, as an end, never as a means.3”

“Since World War II, we have known that the old man—the consuming man, the purely technological man, the wholly materialistic man—must die. Our problem has been that no one better has come forward to take his place.”

“If you want to make a revolution in the United States, you have to love this country enough to change it.”

“I am often asked what keeps me going after all these years. I think it is the realization that there is no final struggle. Whether you win or lose, each struggle brings forth new contradictions, new and more challenging questions. As Alice Walker put it in one of my favorite poems: I must love the questions themselves as Rilke said like locked rooms full of treasures to which my blind and groping key does not yet fit.1”