My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Without hardships, how could we find hope?

The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies... a man's lie is, "I'm at Tony house, I was at Kenny house!" A woman lie is like, "It's your baby!"

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.