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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the need for love, service, and collaboration within all communities, regardless of their socioeconomic status.
Grace Lee Boggs highlights the importance of fostering strong community ties through love, service, and creativity. She advocates for the reestablishment of neighborly connections in all areas, including urban and suburban settings, suggesting that true progress comes from collective effort and support among individuals. The call to 'bring the neighbor back' is a call for increased social responsibility and unity across diverse communities.
In practice
This quote can be used in a community meeting to encourage local involvement.
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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.
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When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
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