Quotes About Grassroots Politics

#1. 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

#2. Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

Dean Spade

#3. The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.

Jasper Carrott

#4. Don't fear change. Just fear everything and everyone else.

Jesse Petersen

#5. To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act ... It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

Nir Eyal

#7. Listen to me," he said, pulling off his coat. "You need to stay awake."
She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.
He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. "What's so funny?"
"You're a really shitty monster, August Flynn.

Victoria Schwab

#8. Life moves for people who move their bodies!

Toni Sorenson

#9. You remind me that there's a time to change

Train

#10. Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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

Glenn Reynolds

#12. You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.

Anthony Burgess

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

Paul Wellstone

#14. I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

Lauren Mayberry

#15. My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.

Michael Steele

#16. I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.

Della Reese

#17. Now to what ... ? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.

Sheena Iyengar

#18. Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Dick Morris