Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
"Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta" is a labor leader and civil rights activist who was an early member of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). 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. As a role model to many in the Latino community, Huerta is the subject of many corridos (ballads) and murals.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous activists! More Dolores Huerta on Wikipedia.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!
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
We are inspired by what is happening here. The revolution here is electoral. It has inspired us to take these lessons to our country and to inspire our people too.
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you don't have these questions about yourself like middle-class women do.
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
None of that would have happened had it not been for the marches. But our work is not done.
We're here celebrating a new civil rights movement, and it's headed up by Latinos.
Went back to our old culture, the Latino culture.
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