Grassroots Movements Quotes:

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

- Maajid Nawaz

source: "A Global Culture to Fight Extremism". TEDGlobal 2011, www.ted.com. July 2011.

topic: Majority, Culture, Movement, Grassroots, Grassroots Movements

[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.

- Emma Thompson

topic: Family, Leadership, Wisdom, Grassroots Movements

If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Strong, Successful, Class, Grassroots, Grassroots Movements

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

- Cory Booker

source: "Senator Cory Booker: Israel and Middle East Q&A". JLNJ Interview, www.jewishlinknj.com. September 1, 2016.

topic: America, Black, Movement, Grassroots Movements, Black Lives Matter

Don't sit around waiting for the two corrupted established parties to restore the Constitution or the Republic. The founding generation was birthed by the rabble of all walks of life that got fed up and did risky things because they were captivated by the breath of liberty. There is a looming oligarchy and it is up to the people to organize a grassroots movement and push back.

- Naomi Wolf

source: "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

topic: Party, Two, People, Oligarchy, Walks Of Life

We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots movement where people will become attuned to uncompassionate discourse in the same way as we are now attuned to sort of gender imbalance in our speech.

- Karen Armstrong

source: Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

topic: People, Leader, Mind, Rabbi, Grassroots Movements

I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

- Matt Taibbi

topic: Party, Mean, Thinking, Grassroots, Grassroots Movements

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

- George Clooney

topic: Interesting, People, Trying, Grassroots Movements

We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

- Todd Haynes

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Baby, Gay, Aids Epidemic, People Dying, Grassroots Movements

Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

- John Boozman

source: "Conservative Senator John Boozman Says No Thanks to Tea Party Caucus" by Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. February 11, 2011.

topic: Party, Thinking, Tea, Grassroots Movements

Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

- Rodney Stark

source: "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery". Book by Rodney Stark, August 29, 2004.

topic: Long, Triumph, Arrogant, Lax, Constantine

[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a national, populist, grassroots movement to force Congress to pass the bill, and President Obama to sign it, educating the public along way about the intractable problems of socialized medicine.

- Peter Ferrara

source: "Repeal Health Care Fascism". spectator.org. February 25, 2009.

topic: Government, Medicine, People, Socialized Medicine, Grassroots Movements