I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don't realize they can do that. They think 'It's OK for other people, but I myself can't do it.' Hopefully, that will come out of the film.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?