I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.
DOLORES HUERTAThat’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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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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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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When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.
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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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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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We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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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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We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
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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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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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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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Exercise your right to vote.
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If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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