"Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it." - Maya Angelou This quote makes me think that, up to a certain point, we have rights and freedom, but when it comes to a serious situation,...

"Mendez v. Westminster" was about Latinos forbidden to enter a white school. They weren’t allowed to go to their schools because they were different, and the whites didn’t like the way Latinos looked. When I first heard about it, it reminded me so much of a time when...

Last November, my friends and I decided to go to Beverly Hills just to have fun. There were ten of us, all Mexican except for one non-hispanic white girl. She was my friend’s friend. I didn’t know her, but from the beginning I felt like she wasn’t really fitting in...

I was known as a troublemaker. I was irresponsible and didn't care about anything or anybody but myself. I just wanted to be around my friends all the time and gave my teachers a hard time. I moved about three times to different high schools, so I got used to seeing...