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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

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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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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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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 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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Exercise your right to vote.
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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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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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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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My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.
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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!
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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 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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We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.
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We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.
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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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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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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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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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