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My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
Dolores Huerta
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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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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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We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.
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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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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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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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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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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We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
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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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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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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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You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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In fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income taxes. Thank goodness for the social media out there, because we sure can't count on the corporate media to get the word out.
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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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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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