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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.

Dolores Huerta

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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Children Country Family Growth Myself Strong
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
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Herself History Story World
I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
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
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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Action Herself Learning Participation People Violence
Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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Active Opportunity Ourselves Promote Time
Exercise your right to vote.
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Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote
I call myself an addicted organizer.
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Addiction Myself Organization
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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Connection Democracy Product Society Work
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
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
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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Hungry Myself Organization Quit Stand Teaching Try
Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don’t know how.
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Injustice Profile Race Yourself
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

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