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Dolores Huerta
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“... if you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”
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“How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?”
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“That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.”
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“Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?”
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“Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?”
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“Si se puede ¡ Si se puede ¡ Si se puede ¡”
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“We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.”
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“If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.”
Dolores Huerta, Chicano-U.S. activist, union organizer
(1930)
Full name: Dolores Fernandez Huerta.