The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Rumi

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The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time - 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn't have toilets in the fields; they didn't have cold drinking water. They didn't have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious. - Dolores Huerta

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Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

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My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice. - Dolores Huerta

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My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men. - Dolores Huerta

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Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

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Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want. ― Ken Poirot

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I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore. - Dolores Huerta

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Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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