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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
Activist
Labor Leader
Trade Unionist
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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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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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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.
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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.
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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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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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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.
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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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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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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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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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If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing 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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Exercise your right to vote.
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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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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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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