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I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.

Dolores Huerta

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
DOLORES HUERTA

Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
DOLORES HUERTA

Choice Give Up Leadership Resource Time
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Important Oneself People Service Teaching
The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
DOLORES HUERTA

Active Inspirational Ourselves Politics Race
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
DOLORES HUERTA

Feed Food Frame Nation Stamp
As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
DOLORES HUERTA

Injustice Young Yourself
Every minute a chance to change the world.
DOLORES HUERTA

Chance Change Inspirational World
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Domination Family Mom Myself Woman Young
If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It’s very exhilarating.
DOLORES HUERTA

Change Involve Ourselves People Society
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
DOLORES HUERTA

Herself History Story World
We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
DOLORES HUERTA

Ourselves Politics Population Vote
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Fortunate Myself Organization Work
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Action Herself Learning Participation People Violence
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
DOLORES HUERTA

Chance Moments Opportunity Organization Personal Potential Time World
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
DOLORES HUERTA

History Side Walk
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Attention Ourselves Pay People Symbol Wake Work

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