Read the excerpt from It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference.
"We shouldn't stand for it. We should quit the team. We have twenty-one players on the team, and ten of us are Hispanic. Most of the best players are Hispanic. Without us, there wouldn't even be a team. If we quit, we could wake up this whole community."
In this excerpt, the author [BLANK] to persuade readers to believe in something.