Dolores Huerta Quotes

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.

We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

Trade unionism is not a discovery or a formula. It grew and evolved slowly out of the needs of human experience.

The courts may have their finest hours, but they'll not break us. We will not settle for one penny less than our objectives. The judge can drop dead in his black robes. I don't care if I rot in jail. I will not call off the strike.

The trade union, which originated under the European system, destroys liberty.

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

The only way a workingman can get anything is by collective bargaining, and by saying "If you don't give us a raise, not only will I quit but we will all quit and tie up your business

The methods by which a trade union can alone act are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

The number of men out on strike exceeds that of any other industrial contest in the history of our country.

Thank God we have a system of labor where there can be a strike.

Stand in back of me and we will make this town union free. You are either with me or against me.

I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.

There will never be a fighters' union. Ever.

While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world.

I'm not a union guy in the sense that I know a lot about how they operate. But I know fighters. They are individual athletes. This is not a team sport. I think it's going to be hard to say, 'Hey, do you mind not fighting on Saturday and walking around the arena with a picket sign instead?' I just don't see it.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

My family and I have been the target of constant harassment and death threats, and I have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable.