Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
DOLORES HUERTAWe 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
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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 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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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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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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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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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.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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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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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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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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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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