SPEECHES
Exhorting Students to be Attentive
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I am very appreciative for the invitation. I am honored to be here but a bit apprehensive about speaking. You see every time I am asked to speak to teenagers I think about my years as a teen. And I think about the...
Said and Noted
"The odds are great
But my spirit is strong,
My faith unbreakable...
I SHALL ENDURE!
I WILL ENDURE!"
"-Rodolfo Gonzales, (excerpt from) I am Joaquin
"[I am a] Daughter of two countries [and a] citizen of none." -Anita Brenner
"Si le das mas poder al poder mas duro te van a venir a joder." -Molotov
"Do not waste your time explaining...what a good person you are. If your heart is filled with kindness that will be shown daily in your actions." -Jessica Lorena Rangel
"I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight." -Pancho Villa
"There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers." -Richard Rodriguez
"I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men." -Emiliano Zapata
"[I'm] Watching sheep fall for words of corrupt wolves...[it's] like y'all ain't learn shit." -Karen Y. Le
