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Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

Dolores Huerta

People would say ‘Who is a leader?’ A leader is a person that does the work. It’s very simple. It’s a personal choice for people who choose to put in their time and their commitment to do the work. It’s a personal choice.
DOLORES HUERTA

Choice Commitment Leadership People Person Personal Time Yourself
I want to say to mothers out there, you know, take your children to marches. Take them to meetings because this is a way that they can become strong, and they understand what politics is all about because they are actually living it.
DOLORES HUERTA

Children Event March Mom Myself Politics Understand
We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
DOLORES HUERTA

Drive Human People Race
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
DOLORES HUERTA

Distribution Hard Work Organization System Wealth
Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
DOLORES HUERTA

Employee Income Inequality Togetherness
I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
DOLORES HUERTA

Active Community Hope Important Inspirational People
Every minute a chance to change the world.
DOLORES HUERTA

Chance Change Inspirational World
I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.
DOLORES HUERTA

Care Food Growth Happiness Ourselves People See
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
DOLORES HUERTA

Important Oneself People Service Teaching
Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it’s so simple.
DOLORES HUERTA

Benefit Help People Result Simplicity Yourself
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
DOLORES HUERTA

Feed Food Frame Nation Stamp
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
DOLORES HUERTA

Better Earth Live Place World
I call myself an addicted organizer.
DOLORES HUERTA

Addiction Myself Organization
A women’s place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that’s why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
DOLORES HUERTA

History Ourselves Place Society Woman
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
DOLORES HUERTA

Forgiveness Let Go Self Love Yourself
Don’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
DOLORES HUERTA

History Justice Walk Work

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

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