“Something seemed very wrong about sending people away from their own ‘free country’ because they had spoken their minds.”

"We make less money packing asparagus than you do when you pick cotton. Leave us alone. Our children are hungry, too."

"When the guard wasn't looking, one of the strikers picked up a rock and threw it at the woman, barely missing her head."

“Some of them say that they will pick cotton for five and six cents a pound, and will pick produce for less. People cannot survive on such low wages.”

"They found razor blades in and shards of glass in the field bins... When several of them heard a rattliing from beneath a pile of stalks ... [they] found an angry rattlesnake inside."

“They are talking about forming a workers’ union and the government and growers don’t like that.”

“How was it that the United States could send people to Mexico who had never been there?”