Would we use our authority and our power to try to control the students and prevent them from leaving, or would we support them as they put into practice the principles of social justice that we had taught them about since the ninth-grade year?
usar nuestra autoridad y nuestro poder para tratar de controlarlos y evitar que salieran a manifestarse o apoyarlos en la puesta en práctica  de los principios de justicia social que les habíamos enseñado desde los cursos inferiores.