Leadership is a choice one makes.

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

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

I think, if anything, my children are the ones who have sacrificed because I've had to too many times be absent from them. But, at the same time, they have lived very enriched lives and probably experienced things they wouldn't have if not for the movements. So, there are some rewards.

Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor - a middle class - to preserve our democracy.

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

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.