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 HUERTAIt’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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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I want to say to mothers out there, you know, take your children to marches. Take them to meetings because this is a way that they can become strong, and they understand what politics is all about because they are actually living it.
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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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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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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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I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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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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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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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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If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
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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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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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In fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income taxes. Thank goodness for the social media out there, because we sure can’t count on the corporate media to get the word out.
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