I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.

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 know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

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

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

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

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.