"When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue."

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Source : "Wisdom Watch: Dolores Huerta". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 15, 2007.

Dolores Huerta

#Educational Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property.”
“My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.”
“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.”
“I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.”

Source : "Weapons Hunt". Interview with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. January 28, 2004.
“I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2006). “Belle Ruin”, New Amer Library
“Children are our most valuable natural resource.”
“It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.”
“Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.”

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