I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
DOLORES HUERTAI’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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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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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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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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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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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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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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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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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 had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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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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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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