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 abo… - Dolores Huerta

We had this picket line; across the street from our picket line was a counterpicket line, which was being conducted by the reactionary groups in Delano. They were shouting things like “Go home, Spic,” and saying a lot of four-letter words to the women on the picket line. In fact, the officers went over and shook hands with them, and were conversing with them. The counterpickets opened up a tank of ammonia, and the strikers were getting gagged from ammonia.

The present economic state of a large amount of our population is a disgrace to the American standard of living and our ideals. If we openly detest oppression as a nation, let us not condone it for just one group — the agricultural workers

When we try to go to the Government for any kind of help, even for the enforcement of the sanitation laws. the Government turns its head.