Top 223 Grassroots Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

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

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.

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

I know a lot about grassroots football.

The establishment will do all they can to block him, so grassroots America's going to have to turn out in droves for Mr. Trump.

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'

Political development should start at the grassroots.

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.

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

I was in an academy from the age of eight. I couldn't play for my grassroots team then.

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.

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.

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.

The little grassroots people can change this world.

It's time for grassroots citizens to have a president that's focused on them rather than the super PACs.

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

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.

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.

To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then to help motivate and facilitate the local grassroots to get out there and turn out the vote and boost turn out. And then to help govern in places where we do hold city councils and state legislatures.

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.

Racism is felt the most definitely in grassroots football.

All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level.

We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind of stuff.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

U.S. and Russia - both coach their athletes from the grassroots level on and provide scientific training.

You combine the Tea Party along with our support with the Republican base and grassroots, and it makes for a winning combination.

I've never seen the kind of enthusiasm at the grassroots that I see campaigning with or for Donald Trump.

There's very widespread grassroots support for Donald Trump, one that Republicans have not seen before.

I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

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.

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.

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.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his political career and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in Kansas City.

Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.

Development has to start from the base; the kids need to be playing, and the institutions have to come forward. There needs to be focus on grassroots.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

I really started from grassroots, without a handout or anything.

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.

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

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

I believe that Conservatives do best when we focus on strong ideas for our future and when we leverage the strength of grassroots across the country.

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.

Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor.

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.

Few cities have more skilled, experienced organizers and activists and grassroots organizations than St. Louis and Philadelphia.