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.
DOLORES HUERTAI hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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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.
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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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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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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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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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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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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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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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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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I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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Exercise your right to vote.
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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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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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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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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
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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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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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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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