Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
DOLORES HUERTAEspecially 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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People would say ‘Who is a leader?’ A leader is a person that does the work. It’s very simple. It’s a personal choice for people who choose to put in their time and their commitment to do the work. It’s a personal choice.
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A women’s place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that’s why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.
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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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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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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.
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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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Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought ‘Wow this is the way you do it!’
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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don’t realize they can do that. They think ‘It’s OK for other people, but I myself can’t do it.’ Hopefully, that will come out of the film.
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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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We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
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