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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

We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
DOLORES HUERTA

Ourselves Politics Population Vote
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
DOLORES HUERTA

Important Oneself People Service Teaching
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Benefit Help People Result Simplicity Yourself
Leadership is a choice one makes.
DOLORES HUERTA

Choice Leadership Oneself
Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
DOLORES HUERTA

Employee Income Inequality Togetherness
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Children Country Family Growth Myself Strong
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

Connection Democracy Product Society Work
I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
DOLORES HUERTA

Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
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 HUERTA

Change Myself Time Youth
When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
DOLORES HUERTA

Choice Give Up Leadership Resource Time
As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
DOLORES HUERTA

Injustice Young Yourself
If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It’s very exhilarating.
DOLORES HUERTA

Change Involve Ourselves People Society
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
DOLORES HUERTA

Herself History Story World
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
DOLORES HUERTA

Chance Moments Opportunity Organization Personal Potential Time 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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Action Herself Learning Participation People Violence
If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.
DOLORES HUERTA

Democracy Organization Ourselves Work

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.

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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.

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