110 Quotes by Dolores Huerta

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

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

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

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.

I 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.

Among our people, theres 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 dont have these questions about yourself like middle -- class women do.

I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.

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.