Grassroots Quotes · Page 2

We really just want to encourage grassroots movements. And we want to make it cultural, where it's part of society to get…

— Carl Nassib

The basic job of any campaign is to translate grassroots energy into turnout.

— Jon Ossoff

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

— Anthony Edwards

“If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Bonnie Raitt

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Bill de Blasio

I was in an academy from the age of eight. I couldn't play for my grassroots team then.

— Tyrone Mings

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…

— Lauren Mayberry

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a…

— Anonymous

Our commitment to coaches will be realized via TeamCarew, a grassroots marketing program that will provide them with insight and tools to…

— Rod Carew

The People's Response Act will create grant funding for the grassroots and community organizations that are doing the work to address housing,…

— Cori Bush

I don't have a boyhood Premier League team but I have two jerseys from my brother because I played grassroots football. I…

— Victor Osimhen

Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which…

— Jill Stein

Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and…

— Virginia Postrel

I love the donors and we thank them, but it has to be that the guys in the barber shop, the lady…

— Keith Ellison

Democratic Party elites have been caught red-handed, sabotaging a grassroots campaign that tried to bring huge numbers of young people, independents and…

— Jill Stein

I work with Kick G.A.M.E., the grassroots artist movement. Not to tell people we have the best union plan in the world,…

— Immortal Technique

The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system, a space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our…

— Aisha Hinds

[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can…

— Peter Ferrara

We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the…

— Todd Haynes

I was previously involved in local and state politics, but not national, because grassroots democracy starts at the bottom. This was the…

— Jill Stein

Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional…

— Dick Gephardt

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

— Karrie Webb

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Eric Garcetti

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

— Glenn Reynolds

We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind…

— Mike McCready

A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.

— James Cleverly

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

— Howard Dean

Regardless of politics, that's one thing I admire so much about Leo's activism - it acknowledges human beings and grassroots efforts.

— Lily Gladstone

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

— George Clooney

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

— Julianne Malveaux

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

— Natasha Trethewey

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's…

— Nina Turner

For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.

— Francis Maude

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

— Bill Moyers

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

— Cornel West

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money…

— Ziggy Marley