Quotes About Grassroots

Having survived what he called the "public colonoscopy" of almost a year of campaigning, he could finally focus on the two dimensions of the contest that he had a real knack for: grassroots organizing—and winning.

Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.

Kids will never go under the radar any more because there are so many scouts at grassroots level. Also, if you come out of a professional academy, it's a very lonely place for a child and some kids don't bounce back from it.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

'Khelo' Games is certainly a good idea. I am happy to see that the government is trying to do something to improve sports at the grass-roots level and that lots of money is being spent on it.

Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

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

In fact, every major State reform has come in response to the strength and power of grassroots movements.

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

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

In an era of grassroots change, the top of the pyramid is too far away from where the action is to make much of a difference. It

In short, taken together, commanding right and forbidding wrong are very effective means of silencing dissent. They act as a grassroots system of religious vigilantism. And their most zealous enforcers find in these words an excuse not just to command and to forbid but also to threaten, to beat, and to kill.

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

One of the more important things the Bernie Sanders campaign did is reach people who are political but not electorally political. They're political in either non-profits or community groups, but didn't see how important it was to get involved in electoral politics.

I want to work on reaching out to people, through my music, at the grass-roots level.

People have been saying that Amar Singh is more of an intellectual than a grassroot politician but we will prove them wrong. We will pick up problems, explore them in a realistic way and present them in parliament.

What's being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next guys to be good. Right now, all I'm doing for camps and academies and stuff, I'm just finding the next NBA player.

I like the grass roots people the most.

I'm a campaigner for grass roots because I am a product of the grass roots system and I would like every child to have the same opportunities I was lucky enough to enjoy.