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.

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  Peace, Opportunity, World

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• 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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  Use, World, Earth

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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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  Lunch, People, Breakfast

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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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  Light, Accomplishment, Shining

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• We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

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  Race, People, Wedges

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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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  Country, Brother, Direct Action

  "Election Day is the Most Important Day of Your Life" by Joe Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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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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  People, Community, Convince

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Every minute a chance to change the world.

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  World, Chance, Changing The World

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• Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

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  Hands, Honor, Harvest

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  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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  Giving Up, Community, Leader

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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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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  Commitment, Simple, People

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

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  History, Stories, World

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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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  Kids, Army, Clothes

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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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  Children, Kids, Shoes

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• Leadership is a choice one makes.

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  Choices

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• 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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  Needs, Attention, Our Society

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

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  Women In History, Walks, Streets

  "Latino Poets Honor Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta at Smithsonian" by Patricia Guadalupe, www.nbcnews.com. March 9, 2016.

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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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  People, Lines, Action

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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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  Vegetables, Justice, Viva

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• If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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  People, Together, Groups

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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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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  Country, Strong, Working Together

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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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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  Educational, Mean, People

  "Wisdom Watch: Dolores Huerta". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 15, 2007.

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• We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

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  Positive, Feet, Process

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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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  Strong, Men, Class

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