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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

Topics: Anything Blue Change Everything Going Moon People Protest Same Sky Stays Turns Until Vote Yellow You

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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

~Dolores Huerta

Topics: Activist Chance Change Change The World Every Minute Moment Opportunity Organizing Person Potential World

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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

~Dolores Huerta

Topics: Forgive Forgiven How Others Something You Yourself

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Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they're so visible. They're out in the open. When they're visible, it's a lot easier to deal with them.

~Dolores Huerta

Topics: Deal Easier Lot Open Out Racism Sexism Them Visible

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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.

~Dolores Huerta

Topics: Both Both Sides Conflict Dialogue Each Educational Get Involved Means People Process Resolve Side Sides Then Truths Try You

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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

Topics: America Building Color Contributions Kids Kindergarten Level People States Teach United United States United States Of America Were

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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

Topics: Amazing Because Come Community Had Happen Incredible Leaders Make Never Power Then Things Thought Up Volunteers Work

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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

Topics: Dragon Felt Had Hard Intimidate Intimidating Lady Like Me Name Really Something Them Think I Think

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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

Topics: Able About Accomplish Been Community First First Thing Give Group History Like List Look Ordinary Ordinary People Organizing Other People Talk The First Thing The History Of Them Thing Were Workers Working Working People You Yourself

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I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

~Dolores Huerta

Topics: Anarchist Certainly Consider Could Free Freed Gandhi How India Join Movement Nonviolent Our People Please Racism Radicals Say States Themselves Those United United States Who Wish I Wish

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: April 10th, 1930

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