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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

Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Chance Change Inspirational World
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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Feed Food Frame Nation Stamp
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
As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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Injustice Young Yourself
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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Injustice Profile Race Yourself
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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Change Ideas Myself Social Thinking Violence World
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
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
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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Collection Goodness Group People Power Togetherness Yourself
I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
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Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
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Democracy Organization Ourselves Work
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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Distribution Hard Work Organization System Wealth
Don’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
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History Justice Walk Work
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.
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Change Myself Time Youth
A women’s place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that’s why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
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History Ourselves Place Society Woman
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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Food Hands Honor Value Yourself

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