Dolores Quotes

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

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.

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!

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

Every minute a chance to change the world.

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

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

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

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.

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!

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

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

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

The evidence I see tells me the unborn is a human being.

There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.

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

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

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.

We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect, we can change the world, one person at a time.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

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.

I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.

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

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.

Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.

Leadership is a choice one makes.

Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

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

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

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

Every life, I think, has that potential because I believe each life is a gift of God... because God is love.

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

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

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

Exercise your right to vote.

As we've focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what's being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.

Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it's so simple.

It's better to die than to live on your knees.

We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.

The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.

Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.