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

Dolores Huerta

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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Consumer Focus Food Greatness Health Issues Label People
I call myself an addicted organizer.
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Addiction Myself Organization
Exercise your right to vote.
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Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote
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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Community Hope Live Myself People Realization
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
We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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Drive Human People Race
We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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Ourselves Politics Population Vote
I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.
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Change Ideas Myself Social Thinking Violence World
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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Fortunate Myself Organization Work
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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Choice Give Up Leadership Resource Time
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
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
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
Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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Active Opportunity Ourselves Promote Time
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Herself History Story World
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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Learning Myself Name Organizing Way

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