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My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant. - Dolores Huerta
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Wonderful
Enough
Dolores Huerta
My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice. - Dolores Huerta
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Social
Congress
Dolores Huerta
I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming. - Dolores Huerta
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Remember
Tarpaper
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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others. - Dolores Huerta
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Forgive
Yourself
Dolores Huerta
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
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Educational
Conflict
Dolores Huerta
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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Dominated
Because
Dolores Huerta
Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America. - Dolores Huerta
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Kindergarten
Contributions
Dolores Huerta
Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning. - Dolores Huerta
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Professionals
Farmworkers
Dolores Huerta
It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it. - Dolores Huerta
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Something
Intimidating
Dolores Huerta
We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur. - Dolores Huerta
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Directed
Pointing
Dolores Huerta
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. - Dolores Huerta
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Opportunity
Minute
Dolores Huerta
When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community. - Dolores Huerta
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Community
Yourself
Dolores Huerta
If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote. - Dolores Huerta
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Turns
Change
Dolores Huerta
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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Anymore
Work
Dolores Huerta
I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth. - Dolores Huerta
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Distribution
Democracy
Dolores Huerta
We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made. - Dolores Huerta
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Decisions
Women
Dolores Huerta
People were asleep, but I think they're waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they've got to get involved. - Dolores Huerta
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Waking
Everybody
Dolores Huerta
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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Atrocious
Sundown
Dolores Huerta
I always saw my role as getting LGBT to support the immigrant rights movement - which they did - and getting Latino organizations to support the women's movement, for reproductive rights. So that's kind of the work that I've always been doing. - Dolores Huerta
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Movement
Always
Dolores Huerta
The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it's amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen. - Dolores Huerta
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Because
Volunteers
Dolores Huerta