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 HUERTAEspecially 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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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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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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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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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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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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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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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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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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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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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In 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.
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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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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’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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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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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
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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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We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50’s and early 60’s. I was able to work with him.
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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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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
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