Dolores Huerta Quotes

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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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  • 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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  • Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.

    "We Need To Keep Ringing the Bell". Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. August 20, 2016.
  • 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.

  • There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.

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  • I think, if anything, my children are the ones who have sacrificed because I've had to too many times be absent from them. But, at the same time, they have lived very enriched lives and probably experienced things they wouldn't have if not for the movements. So, there are some rewards.

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  • You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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  • Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

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  • We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

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  • We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

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  • We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

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  • My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.

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  • How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?

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  • As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

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  • Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

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  • When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

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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.

    "We Need To Keep Ringing the Bell". Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. August 20, 2016.
  • My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.

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  • Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

    "Latino Poets Honor Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta at Smithsonian" by Patricia Guadalupe, www.nbcnews.com. March 9, 2016.
  • As 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.

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  • We have to convince people that they have the power to elect people. The people they are electing are the ones making the decisions about how our tax dollars are going to be spent. Is it going to be for more jails, or for more schools? For more house services? It's very important that people understand that, do their research and find out who to vote for.

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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.

  • It'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.

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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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  • I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

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  • I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.

    "We Need To Keep Ringing the Bell". Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. August 20, 2016.
  • Every minute a chance to change the world.

  • We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It's a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!

  • When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

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  • Exercise your right to vote.

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  • We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 71 quotes from the Labor leader Dolores Huerta, starting from April 10, 1930! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!

    Dolores Huerta

    • Born: April 10, 1930
    • Occupation: Labor leader