We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.
DOLORES HUERTAI 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.
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
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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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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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As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.
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We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.
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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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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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That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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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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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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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’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.
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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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As we’ve focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what’s being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.
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