Exercise your right to vote.
DOLORES HUERTAExercise your right to vote.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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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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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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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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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It’s a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!
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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 hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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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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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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A women’s place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that’s why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
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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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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.
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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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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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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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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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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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It’s important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we’ll keep our country strong.
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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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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
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