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Labor Leader Inspirational Quotes (53)

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In fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income taxes. Thank goodness for the social media out there, because we sure can't count on the corporate media to get the word out.
Dolores Huerta
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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!
Dolores Huerta
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The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.
Dolores Huerta
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As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people - create internships, for example, even if it's only half-time.
Dolores Huerta
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We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.
Dolores Huerta
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When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.
David Rolf
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Exercise your right to vote.
Dolores Huerta
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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.
Dolores Huerta
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
Harry Bridges
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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.
Dolores Huerta
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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.
Dolores Huerta
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No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.
Harry Bridges
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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
Dolores Huerta
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Im a machine man, and I head a machine.
Harry Bridges
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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.
Dolores Huerta
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
Dolores Huerta
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Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to, not cutting jobs. Of course: because they need staff to make their businesses run!
David Rolf
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The most important word in the language of the working class is solidarity.
Harry Bridges
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My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.
Dolores Huerta
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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.
Dolores Huerta
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The free market hasn't done a very good job figuring out how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.
David Rolf
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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
Dolores Huerta
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Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'
Dolores Huerta
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We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.
Dolores Huerta
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