Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
DOLORES HUERTAI 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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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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I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Exercise your right to vote.
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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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