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We 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.

Dolores Huerta

I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.
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Hungry Myself Organization Quit Stand Teaching Try
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
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
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Herself History Story World
Exercise your right to vote.
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Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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Feed Food Frame Nation Stamp
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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History Justice Walk Work
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
Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Change Inspirational World
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
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.
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Action Herself Learning Participation People Violence
My 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.
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Domination Family Mom Myself Woman Young
Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Choice Leadership Oneself
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
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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Country Important Movement Realization Strong Togetherness Work
I call myself an addicted organizer.
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Addiction Myself Organization

We 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.

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