“I think that the one thing that we've learned in our union is that you don't wait. You just get out and you start doing things.”

— Dolores Huerta

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

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