I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown. — Dolores Huerta

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

We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention. — Dolores Huerta

Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality. — Dolores Huerta

I quit because I can’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

We expect our supporters to be respectful of all people and don’t condone anything otherwise. — Dolores Huerta

We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote. — Dolores Huerta

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

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought ‘Wow this is the way you do it!’ — Dolores Huerta

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote–this is what I call Organizing 101. — Dolores Huerta

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? — Dolores Huerta

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that’s what makes a leader. — Dolores Huerta

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

Honor the hands that harvest your crops. — Dolores Huerta

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. — Dolores Huerta

I’m glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention. — Dolores Huerta

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

Leadership is a choice one makes. — Dolores Huerta

Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity. — Dolores Huerta

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It’s very exhilarating. — Dolores Huerta

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

Every minute a chance to change the world. — Dolores Huerta

As the senator hAs said, this campaign is about bringing people together not dividing them. — Dolores Huerta

My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing. — Dolores Huerta

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

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

I call myself an addicted organizer. — Dolores Huerta

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

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice. — Dolores Huerta

Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it’s so simple. — Dolores Huerta

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing. — Dolores Huerta