California Quote by Boots Riley

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part…

— Jimmy Smits

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

— Sam Wanamaker

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

— Al Lewis

I got involved in politics in order to help working people in my community - especially the Black people who had gotten the short…

— Vernon Jones

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

— Donald Tusk

I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I…

— Danny Glover

I worked on congressional campaigns when I was a teenager. I did United Way fundraisers when I was a teen. We advocated; we spoke…

— Peter Paige

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support…

— David Duke

I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi…

— Saffron Burrows

The reason why I got involved in labor was, quite honestly, my uncle was a business agent for the laborers union and he fought…

— Marty Walsh

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

— Klaus Fuchs

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked…

— Hilda Solis