Behalf Quote by Caitlin Flanagan

Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start…

— Dolores Huerta

My mom's side of the family was farm workers.

— Ron Rivera

“The farm labor movement saw him as a racist. He seemed to delight in the most outrageous snubs. Farm labor organizer Cesar Chavez was…

— Jana Bommersbach

My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on…

— Bernice King

Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez - these are people whose thoughts are so important.

— Greg Boyle

My mom's family was farmers and coal miners. They were very hardworking folks. My dad was an attorney and ran his own firm. He…

— Kendra Scott

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with…

— Junot Diaz

My mother and father were farmers from very humble means, and when I was three years old they moved from the roca to the…

— Tite

My father was the classic epitome of a very hard immigrant-worker. He made up for his lack of education by working really hard... He…

— Jonny Kim

When my Mexican-born grandfather, Rafael, immigrated to work in the mines of the American Southwest, where he eventually settled with his young bride to…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

— Chris Hayes

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

— Michael Leunig