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Dolores Huerta

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought ‘Wow this is the way you do it!’
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Learning Myself Name Organizing Way
I call myself an addicted organizer.
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Addiction Myself Organization
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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Fortunate Myself Organization Work
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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Change Involve Ourselves People Society
As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people – create internships, for example, even if it’s only half-time.
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Creation Opportunity Organization Ourselves People Time Young
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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Action Herself Learning Participation People Violence
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
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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Community Hope Live Myself People Realization
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
When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
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Choice Give Up Leadership Resource Time
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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Consumer Focus Food Greatness Health Issues Label People
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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Injustice Profile Race Yourself
We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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Ourselves Politics Population Vote
Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Change Inspirational World
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
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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History Side Walk
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.
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Important Oneself People Service Teaching
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
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
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Domination Family Mom Myself Woman Young
Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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Active Opportunity Ourselves Promote Time
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
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
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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Distribution Hard Work Organization System Wealth
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Moments Opportunity Organization Personal Potential Time World
If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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Democracy Organization Ourselves Work
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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Hungry Myself Organization Quit Stand Teaching Try
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

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