Dolores Huerta Quotes


I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women's work... I've noticed that it just happens a lot.


Citations

Huerta, Dolores. "Dolores Huerta on Why She No Longer Downplays Her Accomplishments." Interview by Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, New York Magazine, 1 Sept. 2017.

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Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta
  • Born: April 10, 1930
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Labor Leader Activist

Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the strike.