54 Grassroots Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. Paul Wellstone

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Political development should start at the grassroots. Abdullah II of Jordan

Political Development Should Grassroots Start

Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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'Bamboozled' is the grassroots that will enlighten Americans from all backgrounds and political affiliations to the true history of the Democrat party and the facts about what liberal policies have done to our nation and communities of color. Angela McGlowan

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Iowa is especially critical for underdog and cash-strapped campaigns, because the caucus system relies on grassroots organizing, enabling candidates with time for retail politicking to beat better-funded rivals. So underdogs usually seize on the state. Ari Melber

Time State System Critical Seize Beat Retail Rivals Underdog Underdogs Iowa Because Enabling Caucus Campaigns Candidates Organizing Grassroots

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

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When Donald Trump became the candidate we didn't have any money other than Mr. Trump's money and I don't think he wanted to write that check all himself. We needed to create a grassroots campaign and we needed to go out and find millions of people to be our supporters and Facebook allowed us to do that in alarming numbers, very fast. Brad Parscale

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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

The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite - plutocrats like the Koch Brothers -want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants. Chuck Schumer

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Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Party Running Delegates Leaders Make Sure Exist Officials Where Against Elected Elected Officials Really Grassroots Activists Position

Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional Democrats from across the country spent months meeting with people back home, asking them what issues were important to them, and what Congress could do to make their lives a little easier. Dick Gephardt

Home People First Country Important Congress Meeting Back Unlike Months Spent Easier Could Developed Make Democrats Issues Were Contract Up Families America Which Little Them Asking Created Across Congressional Grassroots Washington Lives

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

Time Better Smart Plants Long Long Time Power Build Building Market System Solutions Emerge Economic Hackers Takes Roads Power Plants Countries Ready Expensive Infrastructure Meantime Using Grassroots Ports Kenya Need

I've seen what you can do in this grassroots, do-it-yourself world, and I've seen how far that can get you. To be iconic, you still need the gatekeepers to open the doors. G-Eazy

You Do-It-Yourself World Seen Doors Open How How Far Still Get The Doors Iconic Far Grassroots Gatekeepers Need

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

How do we make hockey more affordable? How do we get it into more households? How do we keep it part of the conversation? Those are things that will help us not only increase registration numbers from a grassroots level but also deepen the player pool from the senior national team and the elite level. Hilary Knight

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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

People National Young Programs State More Support Like Providing Begin Person Hands-On Young People Working Standpoint Grassroots Level Champions Olympic

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own. Jahangir Khan

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After the election of George McGovern in 1972 as a peace candidate - I should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party - the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that playing field, creating superdelegates and Super Tuesdays that make it very hard for a grassroots campaign to prevail. Jill Stein

Prevail Peace Election Party Field Changed Say Rules Super Democratic Nomination Democratic Party Make Tilt George His Campaign Very Candidate After Creating Should Hard Grassroots Playing Playing Field

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

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. John Boozman

The basic job of any campaign is to translate grassroots energy into turnout. Jon Ossoff

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But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well. Julian Bond

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There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals. Karrie Webb

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