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Dolores Huerta Quotes: 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.
         

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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That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.



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When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.



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