The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action – whether it’s a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line – people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.
DOLORES HUERTAIn fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income taxes. Thank goodness for the social media out there, because we sure can’t count on the corporate media to get the word out.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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Exercise your right to vote.
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I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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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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My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.
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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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I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.
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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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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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I want to say to mothers out there, you know, take your children to marches. Take them to meetings because this is a way that they can become strong, and they understand what politics is all about because they are actually living it.
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We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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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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Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
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We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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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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