Collection: You Only Get What You're Organized To Take

"You Only Get What You're Organized to Take" Collection

Discover our bold new collection inspired by key slogans from the movement to end poverty. 

As highlighted in our new book, "You Only Get What You're Organized to Take," these slogans aren’t just phrases—they are rallying cries for a movement grounded in dignity, self-determination, and human rights.

(Excerpt from the new book) There is another NUH slogan that has echoed through the years: “You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take.” This is a personal favorite because it expresses a core argument of this book. Poverty in this country will not end because of the goodwill of those who hold political power and wealth or through the charitable actions of well-meaning and sympathetic people alone. A change of such scale requires a protagonist with a more pressing and compelling agenda. Poverty will end when poor people refuse to allow it to exist; when they and their allies refuse to allow society to be complacent about the death and suffering caused by economic deprivation. Poverty will end when poor people become a united and organized force, not for one action, campaign, political moment, or election, but through a long-term human rights movement that can rally a critical mass of society to their cause and reorder the political and economic priorities of our nation. It is a simple and explosive idea.

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