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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

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
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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Distribution Hard Work Organization System Wealth
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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Better Earth Live Place World
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 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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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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Injustice Young Yourself
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
Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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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 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
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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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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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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