Farmworker Quotes & Sayings

I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights. — Eva Longoria

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone. — Terry Hayes

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck

It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

To grow the plants and animals that made up my meal, no pesticides found their way into any farmworker's bloodstream, no nitrogen runoff or growth hormones seeped into the watershed, no soils were poisoned, no antibiotics were squandered, no subsidy checks were written. If the high price of my all-organic meal is weighed against the comparatively low price it exacted from the larger world, as it should be, it begins to look, at least in karmic terms, like a real bargain. — Michael Pollan

Who gets to celebrate this cosmic view of life? Not the migrant farmworker. Not the sweatshop worker. Certainly not the homeless person rummaging through the trash for food. You need the luxury of time not spent on mere survival. You need to
live in a nation whose government values the search to understand humanity's place in the universe. You need a society in which intellectual pursuit can take you to the frontiers of discovery, and in which news of your discoveries can be routinely disseminated. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket. — Anna Lappe

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something. — Tim Reid

By the most basic definition of the law, Mohammed was not eligible, but he was allowed to stay in the United States and obtain a work visa - while the INS processed his petition. Moving with the lightning speed of a government agency, the INS rejected his petition for amnesty as a farmworker three years later. Then, Mohammed applied for a general amnesty, claiming he had been living continuously in the United States from 1982 to 1986. Actually, he was a teenager in Jordan then, but again, Mohammed was allowed to stay while the INS considered his request. As it was considering, Mohammed bombed the World Trade Center.15 — Ann Coulter

Enjoy life, it has an expiration date — Zayn Malik

The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate. — Frederick Lenz

Many manage to improve on the first drafts of the lives they are given. But for that they need the courage to jump off a diving board fifty meters high, blindfolded, not knowing if it is water or asphalt that awaits them below. — Alexandre Vidal Porto