Grassroots Participation Quotes

No matter what the issues are, it has to be handled at the grassroots. When you take part in something, even though that movement may lose, the juices start flowing and you feel you count. You count. Well, that's pretty important.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

Democracy cannot be a plaything for the capital cities. It has to infiltrate every nook and cranny in the country, including the village.

Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.

Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties, working from school boards to state legislatures and beyond. Not easy in the regressive U.S. political system, but not impossible.

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. Actually, one piece of the media confusion has a basis because there really are two different strands in the occupy movement, both important, but different.

Athletes from rural areas are getting a chance to showcase their talent through the Khelo India Games.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

The league will have to finally decide whether it will remain a body representing the upper classes of Indian Muslims or Muslim masses who have so far with good reason, taken no interest in it.