Mexican American civil rights icon Dolores Huerta insists she has no hard feelings against the actress who once played her in a movie and now attacking her over her support for Hillary Clinton.

Avowed Bernie Sanders presidential supporter Rosario Dawson recently took the co-founder of the United Farm Workers organization to task over her endorsement of Clinton, a retaliatory move some are concerned could work to split the Latino community and hamper its efforts to prevent the election of Republican anti-immigration hardliners Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Huerta Defends her Position

"I think that our campaign for Hillary Clinton in the Latino community is being effective, and that's why [the Sanders campaign] is asking people like Rosario Dawson to come out and attack me," said Huerta, who nonetheless insists she still considers the "He Got Game" actress a friend. "I guess they think they can silence my voice by doing that."

The 36-year-old Dawson starred as Huerta in the movie "Cesar Chavez" and recently insisted all the feelings she expressed in the letter about her support of Clinton came from her and not a ghost writer.

Dawson Insists Words are her own

"I was compelled to write the letter," she said. "I worked on it for a week. I didn't write this letter to be divisive."

Dawson indicated she feared Huerta might be jeopardizing her legacy by supporting Clinton and running the risk of "becoming an instrument of the establishment, rather than joining this movement to create a better America like you once inspired us to do."

When asked if she planned to support Clinton if she emerges as the official Democratic nominee, Dawson left open the possibilities.

"We are not there, so I don't need to speculate," she said.

In 2004, Dawson launched Voto Latino, an organization that aims to strengthen the Latino voting power.

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