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“Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.”

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Jeanne Gang is a renowned architect born in 1964. She is known for her innovative designs and commitment to sustainable architecture, with notable works including the Sol LeWitt Museum in Chicago and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Viewpoint in New York. more

“We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.”

Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

“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.”

Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

“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?”

Thinking Humanity Struggle These Days

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Thinking Country Government Order Force Revolution Happenings Grassroots

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

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