Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'

There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.

I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.