The Importance Of Social Justice By Angel Nieto

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In this article, Sonia Nieto makes emphasis in social justice. She starts referring to a poem written by Angel Nieto. Sonia refers to the poem because it makes her think of the importance of our presence and the clamor we can create with it. Furthermore, Mrs. Nieto explains the hard time we are going through when it comes to social justice. Also, she went back to the past and talked about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s thoughts about the injustices that existed before and are existing now. For example, she pointed out the minorities groups that have always existed such as people of color, women, people who speaks other languages than English as native language, people with disabilities, gay and lesbian people, and others.(pg 3). She said we need

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