Able Quote by Dolores Huerta

I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's…

— Dolores Huerta

“The farm labor movement saw him as a racist. He seemed to delight in the most outrageous snubs. Farm labor organizer Cesar Chavez was…

— Jana Bommersbach

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize…

— Boots Riley

We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be…

— Herbert Hoover

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world,…

— Lydia Polgreen

I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants…

— Opal Tometi

I worked at SEIU as a national leader for our security officers's organizing campaign.

— Laphonza Butler

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

— Al Lewis

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices…

— Henry Giroux

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause.…

— Tom Peters

Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know…

— Frances Moore Lappé

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

— Cory Booker