Hilda Solis famous quotes

My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.
-- Hilda Solis

#Niece #Animal #Domestic Violence

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
-- Hilda Solis

#Children #Inappropriate #Illegal

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.
-- Hilda Solis

#Mother #Father #Years

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.
-- Hilda Solis

#Lunch #Community #Mentor

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.
-- Hilda Solis

#Sibling #Parent #Littles

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.
-- Hilda Solis

#People #Roles #Unions

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
-- Hilda Solis

#Children #Captivity #Tables

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.
-- Hilda Solis

#Book #Law #Roles

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.
-- Hilda Solis

#Real #Struggle #Fighting

Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence