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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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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.
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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.
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A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
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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.
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.
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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.
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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.
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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!'
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We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
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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!
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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.
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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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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.
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We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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 and early 60's. I was able to work with him.
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