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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.
Dolores Huerta
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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
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People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don't realize they can do that. They think 'It's OK for other people, but I myself can't do it.' Hopefully, that will come out of the film.
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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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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.
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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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When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.
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A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
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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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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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We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
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