<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div class="bucket" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NPR Bio and photos</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/27/417175523/grace-lee-boggs-activist-and-american-revolutionary-turns-100">http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/27/417175523/grace-lee-boggs-activist-and-american-revolutionary-turns-100</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">===</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;">Short quote about living with philosophy</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As I've grown older, I've realized that philosophy has to do with how we value ourselves as human beings, and how we look at ourselves, and how we relate to reality.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">===</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Medium quote about the cultural revolution we make among ourselves</span></p><p><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"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." </font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">...people think of evolution mainly in terms of anatomical changes. I think that we have to think of evolution in terms of-- very elemental human changes. and so, we're evolving both through our knowledge and through our experiences to another a stage of human-- humankind. So, revolution and evolution are no longer so separate. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">do something local. Do something real, however, small. And don't-- don't diss the political things, but understand their limitations. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">it takes a whole lot of things. It takes people doing things. It takes people talking about things. It takes dialogue. It takes changing the whole lot of ways by which we think. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“you cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.” </span></p><p align="LEFT"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> ===</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Longer quote about the times we live in</span></p><p><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was privileged to participate in the great humanizing movements of the last century, but I can’t recall a time when the issues were so basic, so interconnected.</font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge. I think that the calamity, the quagmire of the Iraq war, the outsourcing of jobs, the drop-out of young people from the education system, the monstrous growth of the prison-industrial complex, the planetary emergency, which we are engulfed at the present moment, is demanding that instead of just complaining about these things, instead of just protesting about these things, we begin to look for, and hope for, another way of living. And I think that-- that's where the movement-- I-- I see a movement beginning to emerge, 'cause I see hope beginning to trump despair. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?"</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In order to grapple with the interacting and seemingly intractable questions of today’s society, we need to see ourselves not mainly as victims but as new men and women who, recognizing the sacredness in ourselves and in others, can view love and compassion not as some “sentimental weakness but as the key that somehow unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.” (Martin Luther King) </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn’t even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What will move us to care for our biosphere instead of using our technological mastery to increase the speed at which we are making it uninhabitable? </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison? </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Can we build an America in which people of all races and ethnicities live together in harmony, and Euro-Americans, in particular, celebrate their role as one among many minorities constituting the multiethnic majority?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">how do we achieve reconciliation with the two-thirds of the world that increasingly resents our economic, military, and cultural domination?</span></p><div><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><p class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grace Lee Boggs</span></p><br>Message from: Steve<div><div><div>Skype: consultharrington</div><div>Social Media: LinkedIn, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">FaceBook, Google + Hangouts</span></div></div></div></div><div><br><br>Message from: Steve<div><div><div>Skype: consultharrington</div><div>Social Media: LinkedIn, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">FaceBook, Google + Hangouts</span></div></div></div></div></body></html>