Quote of the Week: Immigrant Community Has Woken Up

"We have arrived at a moment when the immigrant community has woken up.

Immigrants work as much or more than any other people in this country, and they are paid the least. It's time they had a voice and vote. I'm a citizen, but thousands of these people work in the field, wash our dishes, clean our toilets and they're paid very little and exploited."

----- Joel Gates, 25 years old, on May 1, 2006 at an immigration march in San Jose, California, to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. (Historic Day: Immigrant Rallies Could Spur Civil Rights Movement)
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