Excerpts from
The Freedom Writers
Diary, 10th Anniversary Edition:

“I will continue to fight for
change alongside students,
teachers, and immigrants.”
– Diary #1

“If letting this student
know everything is going to
be okay means going to that
place, it’s worth it […] it’s not
a happy ending, but it is my
truth, and I hope it can
resonate with this kid and
all of the others who had
to be an adult way too soon.”
– Diary #2

“I was no longer just the
statistic, the single teenage
mother with no options; I was
a college graduate with an
entire world of possibilities
ahead of me. It was time for
my life to begin.”
– Diary #4

“The Freedom Writers
Foundation has been the pulse,
the bloodline, that has been
running through the veins of everything we have done since
high school.”
– Diary #5