Exercise your right to vote.
DOLORES HUERTAPeople would say ‘Who is a leader?’ A leader is a person that does the work. It’s very simple. It’s a personal choice for people who choose to put in their time and their commitment to do the work. It’s a personal choice.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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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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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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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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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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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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I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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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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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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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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