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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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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

Topics: About Atrocious Cents Cold Conditions Drinking Drinking Water Earning Fields Highest Hour Only People Periods Really Rest Terrible Time Toilets Wage Water Were Worked

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I think that's something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that's one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

~Dolores Huerta

Topics: Advocate Behind Childhood Children Deal Early Early Childhood Education Families Kids Leave Mothers Only Our Reasons Single Something Think Women Work I Think

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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

Topics: Being Civic Decisions Feminist Life Made Need Office Political Right Run Table Will Women

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My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

~Dolores Huerta

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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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I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

~Dolores Huerta

Topics: Democracy Distribution Fair Labor Necessary Only Organized Part Think Way Wealth I Think

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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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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: April 10th, 1930

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