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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.

Dolores Huerta

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
DOLORES HUERTA

Food Hands Honor Value Yourself
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
DOLORES HUERTA

Herself History Story World
Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought ‘Wow this is the way you do it!’
DOLORES HUERTA

Learning Myself Name Organizing Way
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Injustice Profile Race Yourself
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Consumer Focus Food Greatness Health Issues Label People
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Change Ideas Myself Social Thinking Violence World
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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Change Myself Time Youth
I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.
DOLORES HUERTA

Care Food Growth Happiness Ourselves People See
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Children Country Family Growth Myself Strong
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!
DOLORES HUERTA

History Justice Walk Work
Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.
DOLORES HUERTA

Employee Income Inequality Togetherness
People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don’t realize they can do that. They think ‘It’s OK for other people, but I myself can’t do it.’ Hopefully, that will come out of the film.
DOLORES HUERTA

Community Hope Live Myself People Realization
I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50’s and early 60’s. I was able to work with him.
DOLORES HUERTA

Fortunate Myself Organization Work
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.
DOLORES HUERTA

Better Earth Live Place World
Exercise your right to vote.
DOLORES HUERTA

Exercise One Liner Politics Right Vote
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
DOLORES HUERTA

Forgiveness Let Go Self Love Yourself

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