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 HUERTAMy 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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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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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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When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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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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I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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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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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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