Top 58 Huerta Quotes
#1. 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
#2. [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
#3. I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.
Paz De La Huerta
#4. 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
#6. When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles.
Paz De La Huerta
#7. 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
#8. If you add imagination to the equation, then anything is possible.
Angel M. Huerta
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
Dolores Huerta
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.
Paz De La Huerta
#22. I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
Dolores Huerta
#24. 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
#25. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
Dolores Huerta
#26. Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta
#29. I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.
Paz De La Huerta
#30. 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
#31. That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
Dolores Huerta
#32. 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
#34. 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
#35. Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.
Paz De La Huerta
#36. My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
Dolores Huerta
#37. 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
#42. Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?
Dolores Huerta
#44. How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?
Dolores Huerta
#45. 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
#47. I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.
Paz De La Huerta
#48. If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.
Dolores Huerta
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#56. 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
#57. We can't let people drive wedges between us ... because there's only one human race.
Dolores Huerta
#58. We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
Dolores Huerta
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