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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.

Dolores Huerta

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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
Activist
Labor Leader
Trade Unionist
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Opportunity
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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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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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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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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.
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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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The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.
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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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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.
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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.
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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 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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