20 Quotes by Harry Pachon

Los Angeles is Los Angeles, and it's very easy for someone to come here not knowing English and be able to get a toehold on American society.

Legal or illegal, advertisers still think they have to buy toothpaste in the morning,

Simple demographics. There's going to be more than five and a half million Latino voters voting in November.

One out of every nine Americans is now Latino. In certain states, Latinos, in the next 20 years, will outnumber the traditional white non-Hispanic population.

Politics, for most Americans, is not an everyday-life issue. It is not something that affects you personally. That is why these demonstrations are so interesting, because what it shows is that immigration is not an academic issue; it is a genuine issue on the Hispanic immigrant side. You are talking about your friends, relatives, neighbors.

He was a quiet ground-breaker, ... Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things in a quiet way.

He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,

That doesn't surprise me. These are businesses catering to the new ethnic enclaves.

Look at the Chicago area. Cook County, Illinois, now has more Latinos than Arizona, New Mexico or Colorado.