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Teen Activist Sacrifice

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Teen activist sacrifices A teen activist is someone who is a teen and an activist but they are also someone who gives up a lot of personal time to fight for their cause they are also brave and lastly they are people who spread their cause anyway they can. Teen activist also make sacrifices for their cause such as traveling to other countries, giving up personal lots of personal time, and sometimes they even risk their lives. An example of a teen activist traveling to another country is Iqbal, Iqbal was a teen activist who fought against child labor, he was sold at the age of 3 to a factory for 12 U.S. dollars, after being freed he travelled around the world giving speeches even though he was only 11 years old and he gave lectures to schools about child labor, according to the video freedom hero Iqbal said “I will stop child …show more content…

My last example of a teen activist who risked their life is Iqbal, who was killed at the age of twelve because he stood up against child labor, in the freedom hero video he said to the students he was lecturing “I will do whatever it takes to stop child labor” this quote shows how teen activists are risking their lives by showing how even though some people don’t like what their saying and are threatening him he still gave speeches and lectures around the world. As you can see a lot of teen activists are risking their lives by fighting for their cause even though they are threatened by people, it also shows that teen activists are very

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