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 More Quotes by Dolores Huerta More Quotes From Dolores Huerta If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in the Latino community, they have this big ballot and all these names and propositions on it, and they say 'Oh my God'. They don't know which of these to vote for, so they don't vote. Dolores Huerta organizationnamespeople We know we only have about half of our population that's voting. Dolores Huerta populationvotinghalf 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. Dolores Huerta girlorganizationyears 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. Dolores Huerta movementchildrenthinking 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 strongcountrychildren 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 ablecommunityorganization When you talk about sacrifices, the ones in my family who have sacrificed are my children, because I love what I'm doing. I love the work. I love to go out there and talk about organizing the people. To me, that's something I really enjoy. Dolores Huerta sacrificechildrenpeople 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. Dolores Huerta organizationopportunitypeople 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. Dolores Huerta activismkidspeople I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention. Dolores Huerta pesticidesattentionpeople As the senator has said, this campaign is about bringing people together not dividing them. Dolores Huerta politics We expect our supporters to be respectful of all people and don't condone anything otherwise. Dolores Huerta politics If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote. Dolores Huerta youchangeskypeople 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. Dolores Huerta willwomenpoliticallife 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. Dolores Huerta amazingcommunitypowerwork My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal. Dolores Huerta mewomenfamilymother I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry. Dolores Huerta i-wishracismwishpeople The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time - 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn't have toilets in the fields; they didn't have cold drinking water. They didn't have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious. Dolores Huerta resttimewaterpeople My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice. Dolores Huerta fightsocial-justicejusticeson Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America. Dolores Huerta buildingcoloramericapeople
