As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
DOLORES HUERTAWe 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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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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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
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We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It’s a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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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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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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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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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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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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Exercise your right to vote.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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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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I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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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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