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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

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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Choice Leadership Oneself
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
Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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Active Opportunity Ourselves Promote Time
The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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Active Inspirational Ourselves Politics Race
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
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
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
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
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Herself History Story World

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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