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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

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

Forgiveness Let Go Self Love Yourself
We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
DOLORES HUERTA

Ourselves Politics Population Vote
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Benefit Help People Result Simplicity Yourself
When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.
DOLORES HUERTA

Collection Goodness Group People Power Togetherness Yourself
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Creation Opportunity Organization Ourselves People Time Young
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
DOLORES HUERTA

Herself History Story World
If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
DOLORES HUERTA

Democracy Organization Ourselves Work
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
DOLORES HUERTA

Food Hands Honor Value Yourself
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
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Hungry Myself Organization Quit Stand Teaching Try
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Change Ideas Myself Social Thinking Violence World
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!
DOLORES HUERTA

History Justice Walk Work
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 can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
DOLORES HUERTA

Drive Human People Race

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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