Huerta Quotes & Sayings

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps? — Dolores Huerta

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth. — Dolores Huerta

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason. — Paz De La Huerta

I love being in front of the camera. — Paz De La Huerta

If you add imagination to the equation, then anything is possible. — Angel M. Huerta

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

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning. — Dolores Huerta

Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone. — Paz De La Huerta

I love going to the hair salon. I'm Spanish. I think it's more of a Latina thing to go to the hair salon. — Paz De La Huerta

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. — Dolores Huerta

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one. — Paz De La Huerta

I always hated school. — Paz De La Huerta

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

Today, I'm going to the grocery store. — Javier O. Huerta

We can't let people drive wedges between us ... because there's only one human race. — Dolores Huerta

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period. — Paz De La Huerta

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't. — Dolores Huerta

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant. — Dolores Huerta

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal. — Dolores Huerta

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet. — Dolores Huerta

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

I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child. — Paz De La Huerta

I love biker chicks! — Paz De La Huerta

Respecting other people's rights is peace. — Dolores Huerta

I'm a real actress. — Paz De La Huerta

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others. — Dolores Huerta

In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government. — Jesus Huerta De Soto

Surviving the death of a loved one ... one day at a time. — Sandra Toscano Huerta

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

[About Paz De La Huerta ... ] And there is this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she's getting like her t*ts out and I'm like: God, that's unusual. — Lana Del Rey

I try to stay away from forced intimacy. — Paz De La Huerta

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy. — Dolores Huerta

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have. — Paz De La Huerta

I don't get hung up about anything really. — Paz De La Huerta

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive. — Paz De La Huerta

I feel that when people hire me they know it's going to be a collaboration and that they hire me for what I give on all sorts of levels, from my movement to the emotion I bring to the project, the passion, all of it. — Paz De La Huerta

I don't ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them. — Paz De La Huerta

I go to an acting class every Sunday. — Paz De La Huerta

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men. — Dolores Huerta

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

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

Among our people, theres 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 dont have these questions about yourself like middle
class women do. — Dolores Huerta

Honor the hands that harvest your crops. — Dolores Huerta

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

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

The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights. — Dolores Huerta

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa. — Carlos Santana

I love Frida Kahlo. — Paz De La Huerta

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. — Dolores Huerta

Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves. — Paz De La Huerta

Believe in the strength of your own resolve. — Sandra T. Huerta

When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles. — Paz De La Huerta

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging. — Paz De La Huerta

How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape? — Dolores Huerta

Inspiration for survival, Motivation for revival! — Sandra Toscano Huerta

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. — Dolores Huerta

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

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming. — Dolores Huerta

It's always freezing on planes. — Paz De La Huerta

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow. — Paz De La Huerta

I wouldn't say I'm a hostile person. — Paz De La Huerta