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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.

Dolores Huerta

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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Attention Ourselves Pay People Symbol Wake Work
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Country Important Movement Realization Strong Togetherness Work
Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor – a middle class – to preserve our democracy.
DOLORES HUERTA

Connection Democracy Product Society Work
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Domination Family Mom Myself Woman Young
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
DOLORES HUERTA

Chance Moments Opportunity Organization Personal Potential Time World
As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
DOLORES HUERTA

Injustice Young Yourself
Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
DOLORES HUERTA

Call Door Organization People Vote
Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
DOLORES HUERTA

Employee Income Inequality Togetherness
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
DOLORES HUERTA

Forgiveness Let Go Self Love Yourself
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Injustice Profile Race Yourself
We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
DOLORES HUERTA

Basic Education Organization People Start Vote
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
DOLORES HUERTA

Criticism Jump Ourselves Process Right Separate
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
DOLORES HUERTA

Food Hands Honor Value Yourself
Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
DOLORES HUERTA

Active Opportunity Ourselves Promote Time
Exercise your right to vote.
DOLORES HUERTA

Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote

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 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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