Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
DOLORES HUERTAWhen a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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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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We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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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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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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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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