Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
DOLORES HUERTADon’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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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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We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
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I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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Every minute a chance to change the world.
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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.
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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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.
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I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.
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I call myself an addicted organizer.
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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Exercise your right to vote.
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Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
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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.
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