Frasi di Dolores Huerta

Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta è una sindacalista e attivista statunitense.

Insieme a Cesar Chavez è cofondatrice della National Farmworkers Association, che in seguito divenne United Farm Workers . Huerta aiutò a organizzare lo sciopero dell'uva di Delano nel 1965 in California e fu la principale negoziatrice nel contratto dei lavoratori che fu creato dopo lo sciopero.Ha ricevuto numerosi riconoscimenti per il suo servizio alla comunità e la difesa dei diritti dei lavoratori, degli immigrati e delle donne, tra cui il premio Eugene V. Debs, il premio presidenziale degli Stati Uniti Eleanor Roosevelt per i diritti umani e la medaglia presidenziale della libertà. È stata la prima latinoamericana introdotta nella National Women's Hall of Fame nel 1993. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. Aprile 1930
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Dolores Huerta: Frasi in inglese

“I think that the one thing that we've learned in our union is that you don't wait. You just get out and you start doing things.”

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

“The social and economic revolution of the farm workers is well under way and will not be stopped until they receive equality.”

1966 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

“The workers are on the rise. There will be strikes all over the state and throughout the country because Delano has shown what can be done, and the workers know now they are no longer alone.”

1966 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

“Can we live in a world of brotherhood and peace without disease and fear and oppression?”

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

“Do you know that we were amazed to find out you can get all kinds of information about what's harmful to a pet, but you can't get any information about what's harmful to a farm worker?”

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

“What we're doing is we're not only just giving good health care-fantastic health care-but we are training our own people to be able to do the health work and to administer the program.”

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

“Now, some of you might wonder how come I have ten children, right? One of the main reasons is because I want to have my own picket line.”

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

“Once we got the medical plan, we found that that really didn't stop the abuses, because the doctors were still not giving the workers good health care. So the next step was then to build a clinic. So the workers started to build their clinics.”

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

“It is no accident that farm workers have an average life span of forty-nine years of age.”

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

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