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

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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.

We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.

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

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