Grassroots Quotes

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All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.

The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.

Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.

The little grassroots people can change this world.

If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There is so much of razzle-dazzle... that classical dance suffers.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development.

I've never seen the kind of enthusiasm at the grassroots that I see campaigning with or for Donald Trump.

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

You need a Democratic Party which is a grassroots party, which makes decisions from the bottom on up, not just from the top on down.

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.