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 HUERTADon’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Exercise your right to vote.
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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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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.
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We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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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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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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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Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
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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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