"You stood tall and proud next to Cesar Chavez for a long time [actually all of his life and for 33 years after his death]. For people struggling to understand that fidelity and support..."

Huerta has some "Rape Measure" in her mind, some metric that weighs the quality and quantity of accomplishments that make a rape, two rapes, a hidden child here, one there (six years apart), not turning on the rapist all of his life and over three decades after, "worth it". 

It is impossible for me to think and write about this without cynicism. Dolores Huerta, now near 96 years old, is an amazing human being who has led a life of meaning, purpose and service. But in Huerta's mind her life had no intrinsic "value", she was not "worth it"--to herself. Huerta is self-nihilistic.