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 HUERTAIf you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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Don’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
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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 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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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 call myself an addicted organizer.
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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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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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We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
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Exercise your right to vote.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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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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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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