SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — At the age of 95, Dolores Huerta is showing no signs of slowing down.
The civil rights icon and labor leader spoke at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Wednesday night as part of the distinguished lecture series and urged community members to keep pushing for social change.
At one point during her speech, Huerta repeated the phrase “sí se puede,” which in English translates to “yes, it can be done” or “yes, you can.” It’s a phrase she coined in the early 70s which still inspires after all these years.
“Collectively, we do have the power to change things and to make things right and to make the kind of policies that that we want and that we deserve,” said Huerta.
