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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

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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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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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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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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.
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We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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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If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.
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My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.
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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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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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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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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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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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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.
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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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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 son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.
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