#root

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#academic #elite #feminist #men #originating

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#act #bad #creative #creative act #i

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#conservative #democratic #deserve #during #flames

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. ↗

— David Mallet

#calm #flourish #fortitude #honor #humility

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#box #buy #car #certainly #crackers

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. ↗

— Preston Manning

#convictions #personal #political #populist #rooted

Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way. ↗

— Kate Mara

#go #offense #rooting #safe #safe way

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#donate #get #give #grassroots #hospital

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. ↗

— Jose Marti

#go #goes #man #more #radical