Grassroots Quotes
72 quotes by 70 authors
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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
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The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.
— Helen LaKelly Hunt
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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…
— Al Gore
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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 color and their…
— Robert D Bullard
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I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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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…
— Donnie Wahlberg
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Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
— Eric Garcetti
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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…
— Kanak Rele
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I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.
— Felix Kramer
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We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.
— Howard Dean
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Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
— Dick Morris
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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…
— Tom Morello
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On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
— Gabriel Marcel
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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…
— Joan Blades
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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.
— Maajid Nawaz
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[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a…
— Peter Ferrara
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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…
— Greg Ginn
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It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it…
— Gaylord Nelson
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We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.
— Cornel West
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We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights…
— Gary L. Francione
Who Wrote These Grassroots Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 72 Grassroots Quotes, led by these top contributors: