Dolores Huerta Quotes


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.


Citations

Huerta, Dolores. A Dolores Huerta Reader. Edited by Mario T. Garcia, University of New Mexico Press, 2008, p. 282.

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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.