These grass roots quotes will inspire you. Grassroots are the most basic level of an activity or organization or ordinary people regarded as the main body of an organization’s membership.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging grass roots quotes, grass roots sayings, and grass roots proverbs.
Famous Grass Roots Quotes
- “There are times when leadership needs to take a bold move forward. And there are times when the leadership needs to act on the basis of what the grass roots say. You need to have your political thermometer constantly in the political waters to know when to give leadership in what way.” Cyril Ramaphosa
- “I liked back in the sixties where you’d turn on the radio and go ‘Oh that’s Hendrix, that’s Creedence Clearwater, that’s The Doors, there’s The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there’s Big Brother.’ You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there’s no way you could do that.” Creed Bratton
- “It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.” Nina Turner
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“The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.” Jello Biafra
- “I think there’s been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.” Erin Gray
- “The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists – I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.” Ted Cruz
- “What’s being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next guys to be good. Right now, all I’m doing for camps and academies and stuff, I’m just finding the next NBA player.” Steven Adams
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“I’ve also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament – it was about 1982 – they called it Peace Sunday.” Jackson Browne
- “I like the grass roots people the most.” Doug Ford
- “A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.” Duncan Sheik
- “When kids can’t afford to see it anymore maybe we’ll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.” Lester Bangs
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“I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.” Roy Romer
- “I’ve been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I’m 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.” George Noory
- “When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grassroots support for somebody.” Pat Robertson
- “The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles – decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grassroots – create a ceaseless buzz.” Gary Wolf
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“I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X’s speech ‘Message to the Grass Roots.” Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “What does it take to win in New Hampshire? Grassroots and financial resources.” Corey Lewandowski
- “After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grassroots organizations fighting for human rights, it’s clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.” Malcolm Jenkins
- “When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately started touring the U.K. We borrowed our friend’s mum’s car, and drove ourselves around for, like, a year playing gigs in pubs and tiny little venues. In that respect, we’re pretty grassroots as a band. We’ve done all that together.” Dan Smith
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“I feel like an eagle eye when I watch my fellow talent because I believe in grassroots, putting 100 percent in when the camera is on or not on.” Drew McIntyre
- “As players, we need to try to inspire young girls to keep playing because, at grassroots, we need more girls playing football.” Steph Houghton
- “The models that the other parties have used where you have a very powerful leader squashing any kind of independent ideas from the grassroots is not very attractive to the electorate.” Caroline Lucas
