Quotes About Farm Workers

#1. My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

Julia Serano

#2. American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

Frederick Douglass

#3. 5 Fieldworker life expectancy: 49 years. Antonio Velasco, M.D., Farm Workers in the 1990s. Forty-nine is akin to Somalia (United Nations report) and thirty years less than in the U.S. (CIA World Factbook, 2008). Camels and catfish live longer.

David Marin

#4. We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.

Cesar Chavez

#5. We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.

Cesar Chavez

#6. It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

Gloria Allred

#7. 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

#8. In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

Sanjay Rawal

#9. My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

Caitlin Flanagan

#10. Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs.

Cesar Chavez

#11. Is Understatement 101 a course in medical school?"
"Of course. It's the prereq for Lying Through One's Teeth.

Jodi Picoult

#12. It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

Nina Easton

#13. As I string, a swift rhythm is played out with my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many of the poor workers, the meter and rhythm of stringing tobacco is the only poetry they've ever known.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#14. I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

Ben Okri

#15. In the right hands, anything could be mined into so much more.

Taylor Stevens

#16. The capitalism we are in now is already coming to an end

Jack Goldstone

#17. Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

Robert De Niro

#18. A little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.

David Levithan

#19. I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Taylor Swift

#20. You look much better when you're comfy.

Melissa McCarthy

#21. Just when the caterpillar thought "I am incapable of moving," it became a butterfly.

Annette Thomas

#22. Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel De Montaigne

#23. Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

Rosamunde Pilcher