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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
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Dolores Huerta
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: April 10
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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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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.
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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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