Grassroots Change Quotes

#1. In an era of grassroots change, the top of the pyramid is too far away from where the action is to make much of a difference. It

Seth Godin

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

Paul Wellstone

#3. But be warned, just because I like to bake doesn't mean I'm good at it.

Colleen Hoover

#4. By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a grassroots level if it is to be honest, realistic, and authentic.

Jacques Ellul

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

Tom Coburn

#6. Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Arthur Helps

#7. I recommend trying this kind of grassroots organizing for a week or a year, a month or a lifetime - working for whatever change you want to see in the world. Then one day you will be talking to a stranger who has no idea you played any part in the victory she or he is celebrating.

Gloria Steinem

#8. [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

#9. Change won't come from the top, Change will come from mobilized grassroots.

Barack Obama

#10. Though she knew she should probably be frightened at the sight, instead Mia took a deep breath, combed her fingers through her air, and stepped out of the alley, right into a slop pile of what she hoped was mud.*

* It was not mud. Alas.

Jay Kristoff

#11. All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness and quietness surrounds them. They are no longer feverish. What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine.

Rajneesh

#12. If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.

Alexandra Bracken

#13. Take special note of how people respond to stressful situations - often the mask they wear in public falls off in the heat of the moment.

Robert Greene

#14. The little grassroots people can change this world.

Wangari Maathai

#15. All there is is now...

Brooke Halpin

#16. Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Billy Sunday

#17. It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear ... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

Marilyn Ferguson

#18. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Kahlil Gibran

#19. 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

#20. The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#21. I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.

Maeve Binchy

#22. I'm not your old lady," I declared. He grinned and asked, "You aren't?" "No," I stated firmly. "In my tee, in my bed, after a night where my condom stash got lighter by three, lady. Beg to differ," he replied.

Kristen Ashley

#23. Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it's hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse.

Elly Griffiths

#24. Human rights; they are in the hands of mankind and nowhere else.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann