#grassroots

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it. ↗

— Jewel

#benefit #break #broken #came #career

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. ↗

— Gail Collins

#ella-baker #feminism #grassroots-organizing #leadership #naacp

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well. ↗

— Julian Bond

#branches #doing #even #finances #grassroots

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#any #auditions #before #big #big movie

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#accountable #all americans #bill #case #choice

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#campaigns #efforts #elections #enormous #everything

We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#chance #change #children #environment #food

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

#being #concerned #deficit #grassroots #i

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#came #could #creating #ever #grassroots

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#getting #grassroots #need #out #registration