Teen opinion essays on social issues and civics | Teen Ink

Social Issues / Civics


Top voted Social Issues / Civics Articles

Opinion
#3181voted by our readers
By PenguinFeet GOLD
Bellevue, Washington

The thousands of immigrants who flocked to American shores heeding the Statue of Liberty’s famous call for “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” (Lazarus) envisioned the Land o...
PenguinFeet GOLD, Bellevue, Washington
19 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?" - Dulcie, in Libba Bray's Going Bovine


#3182 Opinion
By JakeNeal SILVER
Woodland Park, Colorado
JakeNeal SILVER, Woodland Park, Colorado
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#3183 Opinion
K.aitlyn BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#3184 Opinion
By peppershmepper SILVER
Wallingford, Connecticut
peppershmepper SILVER, Wallingford, Connecticut
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#3185 Opinion
beautifulspirit PLATINUM, Alpharetta, Georgia
35 articles 0 photos 1398 comments

Favorite Quote:
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.<br /> --Eleanor Roosevelt

#3186 Opinion
By nat.a.lat GOLD
Manhattan, Kansas
nat.a.lat GOLD, Manhattan, Kansas
11 articles 13 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.&rdquo; - Margaret Atwood

zarashariff9 PLATINUM, New York, New York
21 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#3188 Opinion
By italygurl98 GOLD
Cannon Falls, Minnesota
italygurl98 GOLD, Cannon Falls, Minnesota
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments
GrantF BRONZE, Overland Park, Kansas
2 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually leave them&quot; ~Andy Benard

#3190 Opinion
thepoet_s BRONZE, Nashville, Tennessee
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"The second you break off, the other team takes off."