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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.

Dolores Huerta

We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
DOLORES HUERTA

Basic Education Organization People Start Vote
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Action Herself Learning Participation People Violence
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
DOLORES HUERTA

Criticism Jump Ourselves Process Right Separate
I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
DOLORES HUERTA

Attention Fact People Poison
When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.
DOLORES HUERTA

Collection Goodness Group People Power Togetherness Yourself
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
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
DOLORES HUERTA

Feed Food Frame Nation Stamp
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Fortunate Myself Organization Work
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Change Ideas Myself Social Thinking Violence World
Exercise your right to vote.
DOLORES HUERTA

Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
DOLORES HUERTA

Herself History Story World
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
DOLORES HUERTA

Distribution Hard Work Organization System Wealth
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
DOLORES HUERTA

Forgiveness Let Go Self Love Yourself
I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.
DOLORES HUERTA

Hungry Myself Organization Quit Stand Teaching Try
People would say ‘Who is a leader?’ A leader is a person that does the work. It’s very simple. It’s a personal choice for people who choose to put in their time and their commitment to do the work. It’s a personal choice.
DOLORES HUERTA

Choice Commitment Leadership People Person Personal Time Yourself
I call myself an addicted organizer.
DOLORES HUERTA

Addiction Myself Organization

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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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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