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

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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time - 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn't have toilets in the fields; they didn't have cold drinking water. They didn't have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious. - Dolores Huerta

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Educational disparities and economic challenges are fuelled by the prevalence of underachievement, perpetuating social inequities and hindering the progress of individuals and communities. ― Asuni LadyZeal

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Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America. - Dolores Huerta

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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

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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

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My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice. - Dolores Huerta

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I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore. - Dolores Huerta

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