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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.
Dolores Huerta
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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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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.
Dolores Huerta
Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
Dolores Huerta
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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People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don't realize they can do that. They think 'It's OK for other people, but I myself can't do it.' Hopefully, that will come out of the film.
Dolores Huerta
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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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!
Dolores Huerta
We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.
Dolores Huerta
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
We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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.
Dolores Huerta
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.
Dolores Huerta
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.
Dolores Huerta
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.
Dolores Huerta
When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.
Dolores Huerta
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
Dolores Huerta
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta
My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.
Dolores Huerta
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.
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
