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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!’

Dolores Huerta

We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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Drive Human People Race
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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Care Food Growth Happiness Ourselves People See
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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Domination Family Mom Myself Woman Young
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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History Ourselves Place Society Woman
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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Country Important Movement Realization Strong Togetherness Work
Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
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Call Door Organization People Vote
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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Change Involve Ourselves People Society
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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Important Oneself People Service Teaching
Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Choice Leadership Oneself
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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Collection Goodness Group People Power Togetherness Yourself
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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Benefit Help People Result Simplicity Yourself
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
I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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Attention Fact People Poison
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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Children Event March Mom Myself Politics Understand
The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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Active Inspirational Ourselves Politics Race
Exercise your right to vote.
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Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote

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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