American - Activist | April 10, 1930 -
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta
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If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.
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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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Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they're so visible. They're out in the open. When they're visible, it's a lot easier to deal with them.
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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
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I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore.
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I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it's amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.
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I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women's work... I've noticed that it just happens a lot.
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Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.
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My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
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We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.
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