Dolores Huerta Quotes.
I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
Leadership is a choice one makes.
We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.
We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.
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!
The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
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!
I 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.
When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader.
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.
