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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.

Dolores Huerta

If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
DOLORES HUERTA

Democracy Organization Ourselves Work
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Children Event March Mom Myself Politics Understand
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Domination Family Mom Myself Woman Young
As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
DOLORES HUERTA

Injustice Young Yourself
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

Learning Myself Name Organizing Way
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Herself History Story World
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
I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.
DOLORES HUERTA

Care Food Growth Happiness Ourselves People See
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
DOLORES HUERTA

Chance Moments Opportunity Organization Personal Potential Time World
Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
DOLORES HUERTA

Call Door Organization People Vote
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Attention Ourselves Pay People Symbol Wake Work
I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
DOLORES HUERTA

Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
We 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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Better Earth Live Place World
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
DOLORES HUERTA

Distribution Hard Work Organization System Wealth
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!
DOLORES HUERTA

History Justice Walk Work
People would say ‘Who is a leader?’ A leader is a person that does the work. It’s very simple. It’s a personal choice for people who choose to put in their time and their commitment to do the work. It’s a personal choice.
DOLORES HUERTA

Choice Commitment Leadership People Person Personal Time 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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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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