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We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.
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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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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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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
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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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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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.
Dolores Huerta
Leadership is a choice one makes.
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
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
Dolores Huerta
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
I call myself an addicted organizer.
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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.
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.
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