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I call myself an addicted organizer.
Dolores Huerta
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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.
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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.
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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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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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When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.
Dolores Huerta
As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people - create internships, for example, even if it's only half-time.
Dolores Huerta
My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
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Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'
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I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.
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We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.
Dolores Huerta
The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
Dolores Huerta
Exercise your right to vote.
Dolores Huerta
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.
Dolores Huerta
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
Dolores Huerta
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.
Dolores Huerta
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
Dolores Huerta
I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.
Dolores Huerta
We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
Dolores Huerta
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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