The meaning behind “Liberty and Justice for all” is simple: everyone should have the same freedom under the law, no matter who they are or their background.
We have said this pledge every morning before school starts since we were in kindergarten, so where is our Liberty and Justice? As a Hispanic, having schools preach this pledge every day for five days a week is discouraging.
While it is not the school’s fault whatsoever, Hispanics have to hear this being preached every day while we fight for our parents and families not to be taken away.
“Liberty and Justice for all” is not for all, like it says, it’s for everybody that didn’t come here illegally, although the meaning says it doesn’t matter who we are, we should all be treated equally.
Hispanics have done nothing to this country that they call the “Land of the Free.” A country of opportunity is taking away those opportunities for us just because of the color of our skin and our accents.
Every day, we see people praising Hispanic food, but they don’t praise the ones who worked hard to make those meals, because Hispanics are “dirty.”
Over 500,000 people have been deported as of October 2025, and over one million Hispanics have left the United States because they were afraid, afraid of losing their own flesh and blood. As a Hispanic, I feel for the thousands of kids who have been separated from their parents, I could never imagine getting separated from my own mother or father.
The fact that the kids as young as the age of five have been pulled away from their parents, who struggled and fought for their child to have a better life. “Liberty and Justice for all” is just a saying, a saying that has hurt millions of people today because it’s untrue and despicable.
It’s despicable that Hispanics are called “aliens” because of the fact that they immigrated over here; what about that is right to the people around us?
Nobody has thought to help us fight a never-ending war of torture; we deserve just as much Liberty and Justice as everyone else around us, we work just as hard as everyone else, or if not, then harder, we work hard because our parents have always made sure that we had a better life than they did.
The hard-working so-called “aliens” are humans, humans who have begged not to be taken away. The pledge we preach is one that we once prayed would be true has crumbled to pieces. If “aliens” have to preach these words, “Liberty and Justice for all,” at least let them be true.
