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Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

Dolores Huerta

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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Food Hands Honor Value Yourself
Exercise your right to vote.
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Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Herself History Story World
When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.
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Collection Goodness Group People Power Togetherness Yourself
People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don’t realize they can do that. They think ‘It’s OK for other people, but I myself can’t do it.’ Hopefully, that will come out of the film.
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Community Hope Live Myself People Realization
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
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Domination Family Mom Myself Woman Young
As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people – create internships, for example, even if it’s only half-time.
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Creation Opportunity Organization Ourselves People Time Young
Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought ‘Wow this is the way you do it!’
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Learning Myself Name Organizing Way
I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.
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Change Ideas Myself Social Thinking Violence World
Don’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
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History Justice Walk Work
I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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Attention Fact People Poison
We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.
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Attention Ourselves Pay People Symbol Wake Work
We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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Drive Human People Race
As we’ve focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what’s being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.
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Consumer Focus Food Greatness Health Issues Label People
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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History Side Walk
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Moments Opportunity Organization Personal Potential Time World

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

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