Quotes About Grassroots Organizing

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

Paul Wellstone

#2. 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

#3. Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

Joe Green

#4. Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Tom Peters

#5. The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal.

Edith Wharton

#6. [Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership ... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

Gail Collins

#7. Natural ability can only take you so far. Continual improvement is all that matters.

Lorelei James

#8. I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

Karen Gillan

#9. aposiopesis business was easy to get into. It meant that you

John Cody Fidler-Simpson

#10. I could lend you a very fast horse" - Death

Terry Pratchett

#11. It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit.

Louis Sullivan

#12. Enemies can also be friends.

Wendy Zhang

#13. Life can be just black and white, but with imagination, life is a kaleidoscope of exhilarating colors and breathtaking adventures.

Wes Adamson

#14. You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.

Corey Taylor

#15. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

Golda Meir