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 HUERTAOrganized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
DOLORES HUERTAOnce 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.
DOLORES HUERTAAs 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.
DOLORES HUERTAEspecially 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 HUERTASometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.
DOLORES HUERTAGiving 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.
DOLORES HUERTAI 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 HUERTAGoing door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote – this is what I call Organizing 101.
DOLORES HUERTAThat’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
DOLORES HUERTAEvery minute a chance to change the world.
DOLORES HUERTAIt’s important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we’ll keep our country strong.
DOLORES HUERTAIn 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.
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.
DOLORES HUERTAWhy is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
DOLORES HUERTAHonor the hands that harvest your crops.
DOLORES HUERTA