Building Quote by Tom Peters

I'm not a grassroots organizer; that is clear. I believe in a division of labor. I'm not trained to organize the grassroots, and grassroots…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us…

— Tarana Burke

Organizing is providing people with the opportunity to become aware of their own capabilities and potential.

— Fred Ross

Placemaking is community organizing. It's a campaign.

— Fred Kent

All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea - the idea of community. They can be no more or…

— Dee Hock

“One of the axioms of organizing is that you organize people where they are, and where people are, in much of their lives, is…

— James DeFilippis

We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

— Clay Shirky

When you go into a new city, or any city that you play for, the community is a big part of every organization.

— P.K. Subban

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement,

— Blake Mycoskie

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

— Robert Reed

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'

— Dolores Huerta

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of…

— William Baldwin