Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
DOLORES HUERTAWhy is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
More Dolores Huerta Quotes
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Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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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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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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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 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.
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
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Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
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I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.
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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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Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought ‘Wow this is the way you do it!’
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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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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!
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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.
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Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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We can’t let people drive wedges between us, because there’s only one human race.
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