Dolores Huerta
(1930-)
American Labor Leader

National Women's Hall of Fame
1993 Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award

1997 Hubert Humphrey Civil Rights Award
1998 Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights
2002 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship
2003 Four Freedoms Awards
2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom

birthdate: April 10
birthplace:
Dawson, New Mexico

QUOTES

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people."

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

 

Kids | Youth | Adults | Calendar | Quotes | Heroes | Stories | The EMILY Fund | Scholarships
DO ONE THING and BetterWorld Kids Clubs are projects of The EMILY Fund (The Emily Silverstein Fund, Inc.)
Hero portraits are included for illustration purposes only - no celebrity endorsement implied

The Emily Fund
Education, Mentorship, Inspiration, Leadership, Youth
- for a Better
World

PO Box 430
Roosevelt, NJ 08555-0430
info@EmilyFund.org