Name: 【TED】Dolores Huerta: How to overcome apathy and find your power (How to overcome apathy and find your power | Dolores Huerta)
Uploaded: 2019-03-18T19:37:34.000Z
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I want to start out with quoting Helen Keller,

Past simple

And she had a statement that is very profound,

that science has been able to find cures for many evils,

but never the greatest evil of all in human beings,

So, we know that apathy really costs us a lot,

And when we think of why people do not get involved,

it's often that people are so worn down with their own familial responsibilities,

You know, women, they have so many inhibitions.

Many of them have suffered so much trauma in their lives,

And so it's very hard for them to realize that they have leadership capacities.

That they can get out there, and they could change the world.

That we are the only ones responsible for our families,

and just get others to help us do the duties that we are responsible for.

But we know that we have to make this happen,

because if not, we will never have time to be able to volunteer

to help on these many causes that are now facing us.

One of the areas that women can give up a little bit of time

shopping for things that we don't even need.

You know, you never saw a hearse with a U-Haul behind it.

We have to live simply, so that others can simply live.

And when we think of the kind of inheritance

that we want to leave to our children or our grandchildren,

think of leaving them a legacy of justice.

This is a legacy that they can not only imitate,

but they can be proud of for the rest of their lives.

If we leave them a lot of material goods, all they're going to do is fight,

Just remember that, when we think about what we're doing.

The other thing that we have to do to liberate our women, eventually,

so that we can do the kind of volunteer work that we need to do

is we have to have a different kind of an education for our young women.

Unfortunately, in our societies around the world,

Women are not taught that they are going to have to defend themselves,

that they're going to have to support themselves

Because, you know, when we actually look at the animal kingdom,

and we see who are the most ferocious, the male or the female?

So something went wrong with us at the top of that animal kingdom as women.

So I want to give you an example of how I found my voice.

And I was very fortunate in that, when I was 25 years old,

who organized a chapter of a group called the Community Service Organization

This was a grassroots organization, and I was recruited to be a volunteer.

So, one day, while we were sitting in the office,

And he's paralyzed, he can hardly walk, he has a crutch.

He needs someone to help him go down to the welfare office

they would not let me make an application for this gentleman.

So I didn't know what to do, I was at a loss.

So I went back to the office, and I told Mr. Ross,

\"They won't let me make an application.\"

\"You go right back down to that welfare office,

And you demand that they let him make an application.\"

and I kind of overcame my anxieties and my fears.

I went down to the welfare office and I demanded to see the supervisor.

and they had to let Mr. Ruiz make an application for welfare.

And he got his disability for himself and his family.

Well, Mr. Ross also taught many of us many other things, including Cesar Chavez

And he taught us not only that we can make demands of people,

And this is something we should always keep in mind:

every public official -- guess what -- they work for us.

Because we pay their salaries with out taxes.

Some of them turn out to be leaders, but not all of them.

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