That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
DOLORES HUERTAEmployers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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Leadership is a choice one makes.
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In fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income taxes. Thank goodness for the social media out there, because we sure can’t count on the corporate media to get the word out.
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My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.
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Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
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We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.
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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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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
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When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.
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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.
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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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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people – create internships, for example, even if it’s only half-time.
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