Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
DOLORES HUERTAI am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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It’s important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we’ll keep our country strong.
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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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We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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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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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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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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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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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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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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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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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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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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