The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action - whether it's a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line - people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

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.

Every minute a chance to change the world.

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

I call myself an addicted organizer.

How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?