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“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Forgiven
“Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Peace #Opportunity #World
“Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Organized Labor #Way #Wealth
“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!”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Light #Accomplishment #Shining
“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.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Use #World #Earth
“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

#Kids #Army #Clothes
“When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Educational #Mean #People
“The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Country #Brother #Rights
“That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#History #Stories #World
“We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Race #People #Wedges
“Every minute a chance to change the worldâ€¦”
-- Dolores Huerta

#World #Chance #Changing The World
“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.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Strong #Men #Class
“Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Farming #Food Stamps #Stamps
“Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Lunch #People #Breakfast
“How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?”
-- Dolores Huerta

#People #Buying #Grapes
“We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Positive #Feet #Process
“If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Democracy #Unions #Losing
“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.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Mother #Men #Saws
“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.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Thinking #Ideas #United States
“I quit because I canâ€™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.”
-- Dolores Huerta

#Children #Kids #Class

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