You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm your host, Elise Hu. Today, civil rights activist and community organizer Dolores Huerta. We know her name, but do you know her story? In her archive talk from TED Women 2018, she recounts how she found her voice, and she issues a call for all of us to go out and make change.

You know, I want to start out with quoting Helen Keller, that great woman that we all admire.

And she had a statement that is very profound.

And this statement is that science has been able to find cures for many evils,

but never the greatest evil of all in human beings.

And that evil is apathy.

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

especially in our democracy.

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

while they do not become activists, it's often that people

are so worn down with their own familial responsibilities, and women especially. You know, women,

they have so many inhibitions. Many of them have suffered so much trauma in their lives, so many

aggressions 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 can change the world.

Another thing that many women,

we think that we have to do everything,

that we are responsible,

the only one's responsible for our families.

And it is so hard for us to delegate

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

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