To me the term social justice has two meanings. Social justice is both a belief and a position. It’s a belief because it’s something people put their trust in and rely on. It’s people's individual idea that social justice will happen. They trust that equality among all will happen. They trust that one day we will all be equal. They trust that everything will be exposed to all not just certain people. I also think that it is a position. Essentially, you can be at a certain spot to be a part of social justice. People must be put in  a certain  place for the idea of social justice to be real. We  are social justice and if we’re not we can be. I say this because we can make an impact on social justice. We, the people, have the ability, knowledge, and strength to make something like social justice happen.

There’s one main obstacle when trying to achieve social justice. One really big obstacle , I think, is people. People have different ways of thinking leading them to have different opinions. Some would argue that the idea of “social justice” is unachievable but I completely disagree. There will always be pro and cons to everything but, in this case, I believe that the pros outrule the cons when we think about social justice. I recall reading about injustices among the people from Sierra Leone for the excess of diamonds in their country. They are and have been both exploited and diminished for a piece of pressured carbon.  Something so unvaluable is killing hundreds of people on a daily basis. They’re being taking advantage of because they are uneducated and extremely poor. De Beers, a diamond company, makes a lot of money but they only use it in ways that is beneficial towards them. This contradicts the idea behind social justice because instead of doing what’s morally right they just take, take, and continue to take from people who are uninformed. They are taking and breaking the idea behind social justice? Why? For money and power.  
            
My vision for struggle is very direct. I believe that to achieve social justice we must unite. Either we all win and achieve this together or we all fail. We won’t achieve social justice until we all fight for it. After all isn’t that what our school, Social Justice HS, is all about? To fight for what we believe in, no matter what the consequences are? I believe so. I remember that my third day, my freshmen year at social justice, we went on strike due to the removal of AP classes, the firing of teachers, and also the dismissal of our principal. That day we all united and did a sit-out. For this, most of social justice students came together and did exactly what a sit-out sounds like. We didn’t attend our classes and sat-out. We called reporters, parents, and other community members. After some hours we finally made the message clear and got what we wanted. The teachers, classes, and principle were all brought back. I believe that same thing like this can also be done to achieve social justice world wide but bigger, with more strategies and tactics. This will hopefully lead to an advance in the community, city, state, country, and eventually the continent.

My role in the struggle will be to just do anything at my power. Whether that’s speaking out or just remaining silent. As long as a message is sent. As long as social justice is achieved. Something that causes my fire, that ignites it, is the people I love, the people I care about, and the community I live in. After all, that will be the beauty in the struggle, knowing that in the end our loved ones and community will live better even after we are gone.