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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
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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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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.
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