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If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Dolores Huerta

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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
Activist
Labor Leader
Trade Unionist
Workers
Labor
Losing
Democracy
Great
Peril
Organized
Unions

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