This determination that I have I owe to my mother. She molded me into the person I am today. My mom raised me to do well in school and to obtain a good job. She told me one phrase that I …show more content…
A class called, “Black Community Law and Social Change,” won my heart for the law field. It was the book, “Walking with the Wind,” by John Lewis that did the trick. It was solely that book that truly helped me realize what I desired. I dug deeper into this type of justice and I learned that this was my one true love in the law field. Since then, I have been researching into civil rights and human rights and reading books related to the field such as Ralph Abernathy’s, “And the Walls Came Tumbling Down,” Alex Haley’s book, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” and the most recent Bryan Stevenson’s “Just