My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

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

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.

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 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.

I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.