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“our minimum wage would be $30 an hour. Because people cannot have a good life at $15 an hour.”
on why the minimum wage should be much higher than $15 an hour
On the record · Updated October 29, 2026
Dolores Huerta quotes
labor leader and UFW co-founder
5 things Dolores Huerta said, verbatim, on October 29, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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Dolores Huerta on Labor & unions3
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“I thought I could do more by organizing farmworkers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”
on why Huerta left teaching to organize farmworkers
CBS News Dolores Huerta, labor activist and civil rights icon, dies at 96 ›
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“It was my personal pain, it was my personal problem and, you know, I think it was worth it because it was my cross to bear. I'll say it that way.”
on why Huerta stayed silent for 60 years about abuse by Chavez
CBS News Dolores Huerta, labor activist and civil rights icon, dies at 96 ›
Dolores Huerta on Race & civil rights1
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“it’s sad to think that he had this dark side to him.”
on her abuse by Chavez, the farmworker movement leader
Dolores Huerta on Other topics1
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“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.”
on the ethic she wanted her life remembered by, after her death at 96
BBC News US civil rights leader Dolores Huerta dies aged 96 ›
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