Leadership is a choice one makes.
DOLORES HUERTAThe 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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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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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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