The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There… — Kanak Rele Copy Share Image
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming"… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
I think, first and foremost, showing up, making sure that Democrats focus not just on elections, not just on presidential elections, but… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the… — Madhuri Dixit Copy Share Image
I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of… — Robert D Bullard Copy Share Image
To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
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… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
One of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is the given population distribution across the country. We have to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the… — John Linder Copy Share Image
I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you… — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice,… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What the Bernie campaign showed us was that you could out-raise a well-funded opponent with grassroots donations, and you could out-voter-contact them,… — Saikat Chakrabarti Copy Share Image
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I'm not a grassroots organizer; that is clear. I believe in a division of labor. I'm not trained to organize the grassroots,… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs.… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
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