This is a justice issue: You can't have 11 million people being vulnerable and exploited.

This is a justice issue. You can't have 11 million vulnerable people being exploited and not have that addressed eventually.

Nothing like this has been seen in this country. And if it continues moving forward, it's the beginning of a massive immigrant civil-rights struggle.

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

There has never been this kind of mobilization in the immigrant community ever. They have kicked the sleeping giant. It's the beginning of a massive immigrant civil rights struggle.

The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

We don't have a leader like Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez, but this is now a national immigrant rights movement.

We are a dream of inclusion, of education.