Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
DOLORES HUERTAAs 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
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I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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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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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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We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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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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Exercise your right to vote.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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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