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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.

Dolores Huerta

We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
DOLORES HUERTA

Basic Education Organization People Start Vote
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Country Important Movement Realization Strong Togetherness Work
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Fortunate Myself Organization Work
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Community Hope Live Myself People Realization
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Injustice Profile Race Yourself
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
DOLORES HUERTA

History Side Walk
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Change Myself Time Youth
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Herself History Story 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
A women’s place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that’s why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
DOLORES HUERTA

History Ourselves Place Society Woman
When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.
DOLORES HUERTA

Collection Goodness Group People Power Togetherness Yourself
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Important Oneself People Service Teaching
In fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income taxes. Thank goodness for the social media out there, because we sure can’t count on the corporate media to get the word out.
DOLORES HUERTA

Better Competition Corporate Drive Media Pay
I call myself an addicted organizer.
DOLORES HUERTA

Addiction Myself Organization
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

Benefit Help People Result Simplicity Yourself

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