The majority of Latinos in this country are 28 years old or younger. All of those people out there attacking the Latino community, when you see a Latino going down the street with a baby carriage and a couple of children walking beside them, they should say 'Hey, there goes my social security and my Medicare.' Those are the people that are going to contribute to keep our social security system funded and our medical system funded.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

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

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

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.