Grassroots Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Jobs, Environmental, Degradation

  Source: bigthink.com

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• For a lot of women who don't go to college, or for a lot of women who aren't in New York or D.C. or someplace where there's like a large feminist organization they can get involved in, they may be doing feminist work, right, like locally or with a grassroots organization or in their own lives, but if they don't have that support system and if they don't have that availability to feminist language, I think we're missing out on something.

  Jessica Valenti

  New York, College, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Powerful, Recovery

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jill Stein

  Fighting, Order, Point Break

  Source: www.pqmonthly.com

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• Democratic Party elites have been caught red-handed, sabotaging a grassroots campaign that tried to bring huge numbers of young people, independents and non-voters into their party. Instead, they have shown exactly why America needs a new major party, a truly democratic party for the people.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Numbers, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.

  Dolores Huerta

  Blessed, Practice, Skills

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which suits our economic elite but has not been helpful to the cause of democracies around the world.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Rights, Support

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• 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.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Rights, Views

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Do you have the vision to help empower and channel the energy at the grassroots level?This is not about one person; this is about millions of people all working together to protect and advance the interests of working Americans.

  Keith Ellison

  People, Empowering, Vision

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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

  People, Inspire, Vision

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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

  America, Black, Movement

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

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

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, Personality, Levels

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• 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

  Real, Giving, Development

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• Those fighters, the Syrian part that you're talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society - they don't have incubators anymore ; that's why they have incubators abroad. They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don't have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don't have problems.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Talking, Support, Political

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• 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

  Impact, People, Being Ignored

  The Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

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• 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

  Dance, Suffering, Dazzle

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

  Felix Kramer

  Thinking, Effort, Victory

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Doe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

  Rodney Stark

  Long, Triumph, Arrogant

  "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery". Book by Rodney Stark, August 29, 2004.

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• 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

  Party, Thinking, Tea

  "Conservative Senator John Boozman Says No Thanks to Tea Party Caucus" by Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. February 11, 2011.

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• This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• 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.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, School, India

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

  Diane Paulus

  People, Levels, Epiphany

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Andrew Forrest

  Culture, Looks, World

  "Andrew Forrest makes biggest single philanthropic donation in Australian history". "AM" with Caitlyn Gribbin, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2013.

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