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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.

Dolores Huerta

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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Country Important Movement Realization Strong Togetherness Work
I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
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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Change Ideas Myself Social Thinking Violence World
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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Connection Democracy Product Society Work
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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Food Hands Honor Value Yourself
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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Children Event March Mom Myself Politics Understand
Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Choice Leadership Oneself
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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History Side Walk
We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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Drive Human People Race
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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Basic Education Organization People Start Vote
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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Attention Ourselves Pay People Symbol Wake Work
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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Collection Goodness Group People Power Togetherness Yourself
Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Change Inspirational World
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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Care Food Growth Happiness Ourselves People See
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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Change Myself Time Youth
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.
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Benefit Help People Result Simplicity Yourself

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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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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