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 HUERTAHonor the hands that harvest your crops.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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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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We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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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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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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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Exercise your right to vote.
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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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