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Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it’s so simple.

Dolores Huerta

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
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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Injustice Profile Race Yourself
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
If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It’s very exhilarating.
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Change Involve Ourselves People Society
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
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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Better Earth Live Place World
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
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
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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Feed Food Frame Nation Stamp
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
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
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
We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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Ourselves Politics Population Vote
My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.
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Children Country Family Growth Myself Strong
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
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

Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it’s so simple.

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Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it’s so simple.

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