When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community. - Dolores Huerta

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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 only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

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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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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

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I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming. - Dolores Huerta

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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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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others. - 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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

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