Grace Lee Boggs

Becoming the Change We Have Been Awaiting

Finally, education ties the arc together. Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) argues that people become subjects of history through dialogic learning; Boggs extended this idea into neighborhood classrooms, garden beds, and maker spaces. When youth document oral histories or rebuild a corner store as a cooperative, they encounter knowledge as something made, not given. Thus the quote becomes a pedagogy: by practicing responsibility together, we discover that the leaders we awaited were the selves we are still becoming. [...]