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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?

Dolores Huerta

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
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Important Oneself People Service Teaching
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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Benefit Help People Result Simplicity Yourself
Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Choice Leadership Oneself
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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Basic Education Organization People Start Vote
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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Employee Income Inequality Togetherness
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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Better Competition Corporate Drive Media Pay
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Moments Opportunity Organization Personal Potential Time World
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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Food Hands Honor Value Yourself
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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Forgiveness Let Go Self Love Yourself
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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Children Country Family Growth Myself Strong
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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Choice Commitment Leadership People Person Personal Time Yourself
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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Creation Opportunity Organization Ourselves People Time Young
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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Care Food Growth Happiness Ourselves People See
As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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Injustice Young Yourself
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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Injustice Profile Race Yourself
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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Feed Food Frame Nation Stamp

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