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

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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

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Imprisonment is increasingly used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems — racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on. — Angela Davis

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Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America. - Dolores Huerta

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My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant. - Dolores Huerta

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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

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The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.

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I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore. - Dolores Huerta

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

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