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If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.

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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Country Important Movement Realization Strong Togetherness Work
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
I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
DOLORES HUERTA

Attention Fact People Poison
When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
DOLORES HUERTA

Choice Give Up Leadership Resource Time
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
DOLORES HUERTA

Forgiveness Let Go Self Love 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
I call myself an addicted organizer.
DOLORES HUERTA

Addiction Myself Organization
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
As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
DOLORES HUERTA

Injustice Young Yourself
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
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Change Ideas Myself Social Thinking Violence World
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Better Earth Live Place World
I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
DOLORES HUERTA

Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
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
If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
DOLORES HUERTA

Democracy Organization Ourselves Work
Exercise your right to vote.
DOLORES HUERTA

Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote

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