I quit because I canโt 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 HuertaWe 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 HuertaI think, if anything, my children are the ones who have sacrificed because I've had to too many times be absent from them. But, at the same time, they have lived very enriched lives and probably experienced things they wouldn't have if not for the movements. So, there are some rewards.
Dolores Huerta