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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.

Dolores Huerta

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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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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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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.
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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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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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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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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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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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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 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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If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.
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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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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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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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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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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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