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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.

Dolores Huerta

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
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
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
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
We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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Drive Human People Race
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Change Inspirational World
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Herself History Story World

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