We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
Dolores HuertaYou 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.
Dolores HuertaI 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.
Dolores HuertaMy children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.
Dolores Huerta