Grassroots Quotes · Page 2

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

— Anthony Edwards

Few cities have more skilled, experienced organizers and activists and grassroots organizations than St. Louis and Philadelphia.

— Shaun King

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

— Felix Kramer

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

— Mike Pence

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

— Diane Paulus

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

— Rush Limbaugh

“Change won't come from the top, Change will come from mobilized grassroots.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Cornel West

It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so…

— Gaylord Nelson

In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the…

— Manning Marable

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether…

— Naomi Wolf

A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can…

— Naomi Wolf

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

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice,…

— Ron Wyden

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

The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was…

— Barack Obama

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

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

— Dick Gephardt

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

— Jill Stein

Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices…

— Paul Kagame

If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at…

— Nigel Gibson

There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out…

— Dean Spade

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

— Ziggy Marley

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

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice…

— Ted Cruz

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

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

— Bill Moyers

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

— Francis Maude

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

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

— James Cleverly

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

— Julianne Malveaux

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

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

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

— Tyrone Mings

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