Grassroots Movement Quotes

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm program at the prison I used in a previous book, Alias Grace. Some of us also put up money in order to save the heirloom herd of cows there. So I own half a cow!

Political leaders will never take risks unless the people push them to take risks.

The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.

Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

It will already be unbelievably hard to pass Medicare for All once with a massive outside pressure campaign by an organized grassroots movement and a presidential mandate in the first 100 days of an administration.

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.

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.

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process.

About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

When Corbyn was elected, I found there was a lot to welcome there.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.

There is no question that many people are intimidated and scared. However, the majority of voters are clamoring for something else. So if word gets out that there actually is a candidate out there of integrity, who is not poisoned by corporate money, you could see a lot of people come together from across the political spectrum.