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Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor - a middle class - to preserve our democracy.

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