Quotes about Grassroots

Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.

From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.

I really started from grassroots, without a handout or anything.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

Havel, as much as anyone, had given moral voice to the grassroots democracy movements that had brought the Soviet era to an end. Along with Nelson Mandela and a handful of other living statesmen, he'd also been a distant role model for me.