We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
DOLORES HUERTAI 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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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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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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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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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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As we’ve focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what’s being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.
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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 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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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.
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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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The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action – whether it’s a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line – people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.
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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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