Exercise your right to vote.
DOLORES HUERTAMy 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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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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If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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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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Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it’s so simple.
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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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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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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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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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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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As we’ve focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what’s being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.
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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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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor – a middle class – to preserve our democracy.
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