Junot Díaz: We survived the infinite heartbreak that is the true story of immigration and we survived the agony of not knowing how to bear witness to that story and to ourselves. And we survived the hate—the hate that never seems to die—that hate that pretends to be patriotism, that pretends to be security, that pretends to be leadership, the hate that won’t listen to reason, to morality, to compassion. We survived it all; we are the people who survive— we survived everything, survived even the surviving which is one of the hardest survivals of all and in the middle of all that surviving some of us even learned to live. Our story is an epic, a saga, an odyssey. We crossed continents, we crossed oceans and every time there was no way we made a way. We are the children of bridges – bridges made from our backs our tears our sacrifice and from all the ones who never made it across with us. […] Yet, despite all we do and all we are we find ourselves attacked and demonized and endangered, not just in this country but all over the world, communities like ours are under assault. And this is why we cannot just survive, or live. We have to fight for justice, we have to fight for equality. All of us must be free, all of us must be free, all of us must be free, or none.