Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it’s so simple.
DOLORES HUERTAWhen you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.
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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor – a middle class – to preserve our democracy.
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Exercise your right to vote.
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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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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If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It’s very exhilarating.
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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