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On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. -- Gabriel Marcel
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. -- Ziggy Marley
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. -- Jim Hightower
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. -- Breyten Breytenbach
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 constituents reflects their life experiences of social, economic, and political disenfranchisement. -- Robert D Bullard
About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up. -- Adam Kinzinger
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. -- Tom Peters
Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field. -- Joe Green
The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff. -- Rush Limbaugh
Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed. -- Virginia Postrel
Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field. -- Joe Green
Political development should start at the grassroots. -- Abdallah II
Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future. -- Dick Morris
The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents. -- Helen LaKelly Hunt
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. -- Paul Wellstone
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
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
Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard. -- Ted Cruz
You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money. -- Kelly Ayotte
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement. -- Matt Taibbi
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. -- Robin McKinley
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 of grassroots engagement. -- Joan Blades
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press. -- Jimmy Wales
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama. -- Naomi Wolf
I dont see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we cant be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world. -- Andrew Forrest
During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames. -- Michelle Malkin
I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can. -- Doc Brown
It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy. -- Gaylord Nelson
The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things. -- Barack Obama
I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person. -- Lakshmi Mittal
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 go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot -- Donnie Wahlberg
I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person. -- Lakshmi Mittal
Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
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 of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing. -- Greg Ginn
[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children. -- Emma Thompson
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. -- Patricia Ireland
Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.' -- Christine Pelosi
The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns. -- Nina Easton
The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing. -- Derrick Jensen
I'm honored to have the endorsement of FreedomWorks. I look forward to earning the individual support of the grassroots conservatives who make up the heart and soul of this organization that has done so much to promote freedom and pro-growth fiscal policies. -- Adam Hasner
My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way. -- Michael Steele
Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury. -- Jack Abramoff
At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing. -- John Sarbanes
I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill. -- Ron Wyden
The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them. -- Ben Shapiro
For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together. -- Madhuri Dixit
I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world. -- Al Gore
Political development should start at the grassroots. -- Abdallah II
The little grassroots people can change this world. -- Wangari Maathai
All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level. -- Tom Coburn
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There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals. -- Karrie Webb
We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP. -- Michael Steele
Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level. -- Julianne Malveaux
We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope. -- Howard Dean
It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope. -- Bill Moyers
If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement. -- Hillary Clinton
I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort. -- Felix Kramer
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
I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level. -- Diane Paulus
I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down. -- Barack Obama
There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me. -- Bonnie Raitt
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
I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf. -- Glenn Reynolds
I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do. -- Anthony Edwards
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
If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America. -- Cory Booker
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. -- John W. Gardner
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. -- Maajid Nawaz
I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink. -- Bill de Blasio
Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair. -- Keith Ellison
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 industry. -- Al Gore
The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level. -- Helene D. Gayle
In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development. -- Manning Marable
If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects. -- Mo Ibrahim
Our commitment to coaches will be realized via TeamCarew, a grassroots marketing program that will provide them with insight and tools to teach the art and science of hitting. -- Rod Carew
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 has to come from the grassroots. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives. -- Mark Hyman
Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics. -- Dean Spade
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 of razzle-dazzle... that classical dance suffers. -- Kanak Rele
I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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 a potent force to fight for social justice. -- Tom Morello
I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way. -- Lauren Mayberry
A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom. -- Naomi Wolf
I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon. -- Keith Ellison
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 go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot. -- Donnie Wahlberg
Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president. -- Jose Antonio Vargas

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