Synonyms for grass roots
grass roots

Princeton's WordNet

1. grass rootsnoun

   the essential foundation or source

   "the problem was attacked at the grass roots"

2. grass rootsnoun

   the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)

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1. • Folk
   • Foundation

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1. Elizabeth Warren:

   I think this is a moment for all of the Democratic candidates as they come into the race to say : In a Democratic primary, we are going to link arms and we're going to grass-roots funding, no to the billionaires.

2. Desmond Meade:

   Never before has Florida seen such a huge grass-roots movement, and we did, these people rallied from all political spectrums, all walks of life, they rallied around this and said, ‘ We, as citizens of Florida, are going bring sunshine back to this state. ’ According to polling experts, Amendment 4 is tracking high among voters.

3. Fox News/Charles Creitz:

   This is what's bringing people together in suburban areas and metropolitans and in rural areas. This is part of the call of what we're finding through the grass roots that people respect other people's rights and the Republican Party continues to respect the parents' rights….

4. Debbie Haskins:

   As a grass roots organization we are committed to keeping our youth, our roadways, and public safe. Whenever a state looks at changing its culture by legalizing a drug, we need to think about the societal costs. VT will hopefully have a spirited discussion in 2015 that we hope will bring science, research and thoughtful discourse to a complicated topic, we hope that VT’ers care enough to have this discussion based on science, rather than emotion or for money.

5. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   We're having a grass roots, corporate-free political revolution in the United States, in 2018, it's not enough to just turn red districts blue. We need to turn blue districts bluer. If in a district that's 85% Democrat, if this seat hasn't been leading the charge on progressive issues, what's the point?