I call myself an addicted organizer.
DOLORES HUERTAExercise your right to vote.
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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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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Exercise your right 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 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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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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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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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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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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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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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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