When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

Of course, we have leaders in the African American community as well that we've all worked with. One of the great rewards of being an activist is that you get to meet all these wonderful people. And there are many unsung heroes. There are so many out there that are good people that are working hard.

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.

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.

My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.