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  • 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.

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

    "The Emotional Poll Roller Coaster". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.
  • If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at the grassroots level, but they are always under threat. The problem in North Africa and the Middle East is the politics of oil. It means that the spaces for truly grassroots politics, involving those masses of people excluded from high politics, are very quickly closed down. They are not really allowed any kind of autonomy to develop, and that seems to be the real problem, which gets us back to the neo-colonial relationship.

    Real   Latin   Mean  
  • We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • 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.

    Thinking   Ideas   Doe  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

    Culture   Looks   World  
    "Andrew Forrest makes biggest single philanthropic donation in Australian history". "AM" with Caitlyn Gribbin, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2013.
  • I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

  • I was previously involved in local and state politics, but not national, because grassroots democracy starts at the bottom. This was the breaking point for me, though - and it made the case that in order to fight locally, we have to fight nationally; we can't afford to neglect any area of life in this democracy.

    Source: www.pqmonthly.com
  • Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.

    Source: www.democracynow.org
  • Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.

  • 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.

    Moving   Men   Together  
  • The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

    Thinking   Years   Needs  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • I'm asked that a lot: 'James, is there really a continuing spiritual renaissance occurring on this planet? Look at all the conflict, look at the wars.' And I believe, yes, we're still moving toward a deeper spirituality. It's personal. It's grassroots. It's everybody trying to get their own connection made, and from there it grows out.

    Spiritual   War   Believe  
  • 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.

  • Political development should start at the grassroots.

  • In terms of what is the solution is going forward, in my view, it is the grassroots human-rights groups - both Israeli and Palestinian - that are doing exactly what needs to be done, which is building trust, developing relationships and building that sense of common community which is essential if we're going to figure out how to move forward.

    Moving   Rights   Views  
    Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
  • Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.

    Sports   School   India  
  • [The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a national, populist, grassroots movement to force Congress to pass the bill, and President Obama to sign it, educating the public along way about the intractable problems of socialized medicine.

    "Repeal Health Care Fascism". spectator.org. February 25, 2009.
  • We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

  • Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.

  • When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in.

  • We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

    Shoes   Campaigns   Eras  
    "Internet Users Click and Vote for Democratic Contenders". edition.cnn.com. January 13, 2004.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

  • 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.

    Mother   Believe   Issues  
    "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.
  • 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.

    Climate   World   Demand  
  • I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • 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.

    "Senator Cory Booker: Israel and Middle East Q&A". JLNJ Interview, www.jewishlinknj.com. September 1, 2016.
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