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

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.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

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.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

It's important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we'll keep our country strong.