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

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.

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.

The moment you become friends with your inner Self, you realize that the failures or hindrances that you met earlier were caused more by your disconnected status with your inner Being.

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

Don't let the blights from the past hold you back from the bliss of the future

One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism in our fellow souls.

The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

Would you rather be deaf or blind?

Experience trumps brilliance.

Schadenfreude is so nutritious.