Hilda Solis Quotes
My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.
In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.
No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.
