My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.
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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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Voting is essential for creating change in society.
This quote emphasizes the importance of participation in the democratic process through voting. Dolores Huerta suggests that without taking the action of voting, even the most passionate protests will fail to result in meaningful changes, highlighting the power of individual voices in shaping the future.
Themes
VotingChangeParticipationDemocracyActivism
In practice
Example use cases
During a community meeting to encourage voter registration.
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All quotes →Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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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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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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My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. 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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