Early Years
Quiñones, the oldest of six children, was born in a small village outside of Mexicali. In 1987, at the age of 19, Quiñones-Hinojosa jumped the border fence between Mexico and the United States. Once arriving in America, Quinones could not speak English and worked on farms outside of Fresno, California. As a farm hand, he saved enough money to take English classes.
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“I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively and nonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.”
—Barbara Coloroso (20th century)