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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.

Dolores Huerta

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Moments Opportunity Organization Personal Potential Time World
I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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History Side Walk
The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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Active Inspirational Ourselves Politics Race
Exercise your right to vote.
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Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote
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.
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Fortunate Myself Organization Work
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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Better Earth Live Place World
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Herself History Story World
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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Action Herself Learning Participation People Violence
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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Country Important Movement Realization Strong Togetherness Work
If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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Democracy Organization Ourselves Work
Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Choice Leadership Oneself
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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Benefit Help People Result Simplicity Yourself
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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Important Oneself People Service Teaching
We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.
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Attention Ourselves Pay People Symbol Wake Work
Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Change Inspirational World

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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