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 HUERTAOrganized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.
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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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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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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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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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We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It’s a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!
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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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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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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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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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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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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
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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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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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I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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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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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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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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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
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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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We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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