Diego Luna Quotes

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

The life of Cesar Chavez is a story that must be told. He was a man who dedicated his life to accomplishing change in a community that really needed it. He helped a community that was being poorly treated by instilling confidence and providing them with dignity.

March on Washington

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize a farm workers' union in Central California.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.

I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?