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Top 20 Dolores Huerta Quotes (2025 Update)

Dolores Huerta Quote: “We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.”

1. “We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.”

— Dolores Huerta

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Dolores Huerta Quote: “Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.”

2. “Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.”

— Dolores Huerta

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Dolores Huerta Quote: “Honor the hands that harvest your crops.”

3. “Honor the hands that harvest your crops.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “Respecting other people’s rights is peace.”

4. “Respecting other people’s rights is peace.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “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?”

5. “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?”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It’s a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!”

6. “We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It’s a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.”

7. “Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”

9. “If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”

10. “I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.”

11. “That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “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!”

12. “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!”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.”

14. “My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?”

15. “Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.”

16. “We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.”

17. “If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.”

18. “Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?”

19. “How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?”

— Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Dolores Huerta

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