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.
DOLORES HUERTAWe must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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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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Exercise your right to vote.
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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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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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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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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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I want to say to mothers out there, you know, take your children to marches. Take them to meetings because this is a way that they can become strong, and they understand what politics is all about because they are actually living it.
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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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If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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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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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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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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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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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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