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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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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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Exercise your right to vote.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.
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I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.
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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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When you talk about sacrifices, the ones in my family who have sacrificed are my children, because I love what I'm doing. I love the work. I love to go out there and talk about organizing the people. To me, that's something I really enjoy.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
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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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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.
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My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.
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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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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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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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