Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta
Dolores Clara Fernández Huertais an American labor leader and civil rights activist who was the co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers', immigrants', and women's rights, including the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights and the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth10 April 1930
CityDawnson, NM
CountryUnited States of America
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.
Respecting other people’s rights is peace.
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action - whether it's a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line - people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
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.
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.
We're here celebrating a new civil rights movement, and it's headed up by Latinos.