I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.

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

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 as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It's a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

Every minute a chance to change the world.

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

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

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.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.

Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

People get killed every ten or 20 minutes. When we die, we are just another statistic.

I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves.

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.