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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.
Dolores Huerta
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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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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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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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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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