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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.' -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that. -- Creed Bratton
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. -- Jello Biafra
When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody. -- Pat Robertson
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following. -- Duncan Sheik
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz. -- Gary Wolf
I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways. -- Erin Gray
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. -- Lester Bangs
I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday. -- Jackson Browne
I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience. -- Roy Romer
I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues. -- George Noory
The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. -- Ted Cruz
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. -- Jill Lepore
The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership. -- Ted Cruz
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics. -- J. B. Pritzker
Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf. -- Lloyd Bentsen
He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
You cannot build a grass-roots campaign unless you are connecting with people. -- Ted Cruz
No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots. -- Maya Angelou
Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX. -- Mal Fletcher
In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal. -- Patricia Ireland
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We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change. -- Cindy Sheehan
I'm always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a strong grass-roots game. -- Will Packer
The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain! -- Archibald MacLeish
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following -- Duncan Sheik
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down. -- Paul Hawken
There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it. -- Ari Fleischer
I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots. -- Barack Obama
I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people. -- Liane Holliday Willey
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side. -- Billie Jean King
Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root. -- Ari Fleischer
You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work. -- Jacques Rogge
Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that. -- Burning Spear
Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream. -- Jim Rohn
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines. -- Bobby Seale
I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement. -- Dick Armey
Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers. -- Markus Persson
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues. -- Ellen Willis
People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing. -- Michael Bierut
To earn the support of grass-roots activists, you have to spend real time, looking them in the eyes, answering their questions. Part of it is also you have to have a message that inspires people. -- Ted Cruz
It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food. -- Yoshida Shoin
Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly. -- Jim Hunt
I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country. -- Jack Brickhouse

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