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American activist, Birth: 10-4-1930 Dolores Huerta Quotes
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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta

Each instant is a chance to arrange, each individual a prospective crusader, every second an opportunity to transform the planet.
2.
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
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We must use our time on this earth to improve the quality of life for others, not just to accumulate possessions. That is our purpose here.
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Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?
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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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We as women should proudly display our successes and not be ashamed when we do so. It's a way to demonstrate that females are capable of achieving extraordinary feats!
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The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.
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We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.
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We should not allow people to divide us... for we are all part of the same global community.
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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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Every instant an opportunity to revolutionize the world.
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We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.
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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.
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That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
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'His narrative has been documented, hers remains untold.'
11.
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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Respect the laborers who cultivate your produce.
12.
When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.
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When you elect to devote your energy and possessions to serve in communal activities, that is what defines a leader.
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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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I resigned due to my inability to tolerate the sight of students showing up to lessons famished and in need of footwear. I felt that I could make a larger impact by advocating for agricultural laborers instead of attempting to instruct their underserved youngsters.
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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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Don't be a coward. Join us in making our mark on history. Abandon the sidelines. End your passivity. Fight for Equity. Long live the embargo!
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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.
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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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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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Stroll with us down the path of time. Depart from the pavement.
18.
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
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When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.
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20.
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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21.
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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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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Among our people, theres not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you dont have these questions about yourself like middle -- class women do.
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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...
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I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.
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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.
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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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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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There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.
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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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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don't realize they can do that. They think 'It's OK for other people, but I myself can't do it.' Hopefully, that will come out of the film.
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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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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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How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?
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We have to convince people that they have the power to elect people. The people they are electing are the ones making the decisions about how our tax dollars are going to be spent. Is it going to be for more jails, or for more schools? For more house services? It's very important that people understand that, do their research and find out who to vote for.
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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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42.
Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.
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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.
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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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45.
My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.
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Exercise your right to vote.
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As we've focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what's being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.
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We 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.
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You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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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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