The art of painting graffiti has been around since the early ages, with stick figures and drawings scratched onto cave walls. The Greeks and Romans also made graffiti in a similar way. These early graffiti paintings have taught us a lot about life in those eras. If their governments did as ours are doing now and cleaned up the paintings we would not know as much about those times. Perhaps the paintings on our street, illegal as they may be, can show future generations how life was in the 2000's. It can show them how we spoke out against things we did not like and how these graffiti artists are keeping our right to free speech and ensuring we remain as a democracy.