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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
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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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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
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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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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 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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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
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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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Of course, we have leaders in the African American community as well that we've all worked with. One of the great rewards of being an activist is that you get to meet all these wonderful people. And there are many unsung heroes. There are so many out there that are good people that are working hard.
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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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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.
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