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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others. - Dolores Huerta
My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice. - Dolores Huerta
I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth. - Dolores Huerta
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. - Dolores Huerta
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
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
Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning. - Dolores Huerta
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
People were asleep, but I think they're waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they've got to get involved. - Dolores Huerta
I always saw my role as getting LGBT to support the immigrant rights movement - which they did - and getting Latino organizations to support the women's movement, for reproductive rights. So that's kind of the work that I've always been doing. - Dolores Huerta
