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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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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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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
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If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.
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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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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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Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
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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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The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.
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My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.
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You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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 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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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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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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It's important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we'll keep our country strong.
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We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.
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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.
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When you talk about sacrifices, the ones in my family who have sacrificed are my children, because I love what I'm doing. I love the work. I love to go out there and talk about organizing the people. To me, that's something I really enjoy.
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