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“I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.”

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Dolores Huerta is a distinguished labor leader and civil rights activist, born on April 10, 1930. She is renowned for her work with the United Farm Workers (UFW) and her relentless pursuit of improving the living and working conditions for farmworkers in the United States. more

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“Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.”

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“Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.”

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“I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.”

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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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“You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”

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“Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it's so simple.”

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“If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.”

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“I call myself an addicted organizer.”

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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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