Visual artist Ricardo Santos Hernandez uses art as a form of activism to raise awareness about the plight of Central American and Mexican migrants and U.S. immigration policy.

The young couple broke a piece of gold together, and pledged their troth in the most solemn manner; and it is said the young lady imprecated dreadful evils on herself should she break her plighted faith.

Only at her mother's command, sternly uttered, she summoned strength enough to restore to her plighted suitor the piece of broken gold which was the emblem of her troth.

They don't necessarily identify with the plight of Latin American immigrants today.

They understood my plight.

I neither live in Australia nor in North America to talk about oppressed minorities there. I live in a Muslim country and I'm much closer to the Palestinians than I am to African Americans or the Aborigine. That's why I talk about the Palestinians and no one has the right to dictate on me what I should be talking or writing about. Even if I were African American or an Australian Aborigene, I'd write about the plight of the Palestinians.

Then, audience granted, as the fane they filled, / thus calmly spake the eldest of the train, / Ilioneus: "O queen, whom Jove hath willed / to found this new-born city, here to reign, / and stubborn tribes with justice to refrain, / we, Troy's poor fugitives, implore thy grace, / storm-tost and wandering over every main: / forbid the flames our vessels to deface, / mark our afflicted plight, and spare a pious race."

Then Dido, struck with wonder at the sight / of one so great and in so strange a plight, / "O Goddess-born! what fate through dangers sore, / what force to savage coasts compels thy flight?"

Daphnis was in a sorry plight from the blows he had received, but seeing Chloe among the crowd, he bore his pain without complaint.

She was not sympathetic to my plight.