When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
DOLORES HUERTAWhen you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
DOLORES HUERTAWe criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
DOLORES HUERTAA 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 HUERTAIf you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
DOLORES HUERTAI hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.
DOLORES HUERTAMy 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.
DOLORES HUERTAThe thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action – whether it’s a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line – people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.
DOLORES HUERTAWe can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
DOLORES HUERTAAs 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.
DOLORES HUERTAI quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.
DOLORES HUERTAMy 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.
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!
DOLORES HUERTAOnce I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought ‘Wow this is the way you do it!’
DOLORES HUERTAI 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 HUERTALeadership is a choice one makes.
DOLORES HUERTAThat’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
DOLORES HUERTA