Dolores Huerta Quotes

"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

"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?"
-Dolores Huerta in Forgiveness quotes.

"We are inspired by what is happening here. The revolution here is electoral. It has inspired us to take these lessons to our country and to inspire our people too."
-Dolores Huerta

"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."
-Dolores Huerta

"Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you don't have these questions about yourself like middle-class women do."
-Dolores Huerta

"We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet."
-Dolores Huerta

"We're here celebrating a new civil rights movement, and it's headed up by Latinos."
-Dolores Huerta

"None of that would have happened had it not been for the marches. But our work is not done."
-Dolores Huerta

"Went back to our old culture, the Latino culture."
-Dolores Huerta