About Quote by Natasha Trethewey

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

— Janet Mock

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's…

— Philip Levine

“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for the sake…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

— Natasha Trethewey

I think that what is really important is that, at the grassroots level, Indian-Americans really engage in the political process. That means voting and…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

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

— Jill Stein

“Over the years of grassroots advocacy, I have learned: People want help, but they don’t want structure. People want leadership, but they resent authority.…

— June Stoyer

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

— Barack Obama

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and…

— Doc Brown

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…

— Donnie Wahlberg

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

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

— Francis Maude

We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots…

— Karen Armstrong

Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations…

— Tom Morello