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

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

Leadership is a choice one makes.

I call myself an addicted organizer.

We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

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.

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.