Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
DOLORES HUERTAGiving 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don’t realize they can do that. They think ‘It’s OK for other people, but I myself can’t do it.’ Hopefully, that will come out of the film.
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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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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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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
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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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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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