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

Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.

If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in the Latino community, they have this big ballot and all these names and propositions on it, and they say 'Oh my God'. They don't know which of these to vote for, so they don't vote.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

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

I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?