If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
DOLORES HUERTAEmployers 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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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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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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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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A women’s place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that’s why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
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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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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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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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In fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income taxes. Thank goodness for the social media out there, because we sure can’t count on the corporate media to get the word out.
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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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