Dolores Huerta Quotes

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

If you don’t know, your labor unions and community organizations, there’s somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in the Latino community, they have this big ballot and all these names and propositions on it, and they say ‘Oh my God’. They don’t know which of these to vote for, so they don’t vote.

The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn’t even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

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

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

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

Exercise your right to vote.

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

When you talk about sacrifices, the ones in my family who have sacrificed are my children, because I love what I’m doing. I love the work. I love to go out there and talk about organizing the people. To me, that’s something I really enjoy.

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

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

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.