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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 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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Children Event March Mom Myself Politics Understand
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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Food Hands Honor Value Yourself
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
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
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
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
Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Choice Leadership Oneself
I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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Attention Fact People Poison
I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Herself History Story 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
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
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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Attention Ourselves Pay People Symbol Wake Work
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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Connection Democracy Product Society Work
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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Feed Food Frame Nation Stamp
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
When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.
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Collection Goodness Group People Power Togetherness Yourself
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
Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
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Call Door Organization People Vote
We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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Drive Human People Race
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
If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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Democracy Organization Ourselves Work
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
Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Change Inspirational World
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
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Criticism Jump Ourselves Process Right Separate
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

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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