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Dolores Huerta receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom
On May 29, 2012, Dolores Huerta received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama for her work in leading the farm workers' movement with César Chávez. In an interview with the White House, Huerta who is still a major force in human rights, summarized her belief in the absolute need of organizing: "If you don't have organization, then you don't have a democracy. . . . That's what keeps our country a democratic institution. I think a lot of times people feel like they don't have any value, that their involvement doesn't mean anything.
But if you look at the history, what we see is that all of the changes that have been made have always been from the bottom up, with the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the labor movement, the LGBT movement, the environmental movement. It's people organizing from the bottom that make the changes that we need in our society."
Lawrence Jackson (born 1969)
Digital photograph, 2012 (printed 2015) |