The capitalist system will confuse you. [Someone said], “our people are just a now people. They want everything now. If you tell them something for later youll hear :"I ain’t got no time for later. I want it now!’”
Capitalism makes you think that everything must come now.
But the struggle that you’re involved in is a struggle in which you will not reap that which you have sown. You have already reaped that which has been sown by past generations. You must sow for future generations to reap.
I’m so tired of brothers and sisters coming in saying, “when am I going to enjoy the good life?”
It ain’t for you, it’s for the next generation.
Do your work now for the next generations.
When you work for your people, it’s not what you receive, it’s what you give.
And the best thing about working for the people is that what you really get for the people sometimes nobody else knows except you.
This is real struggle for the people.
Thus, we must wipe out from our minds that the struggle in which we’re involved in is going to give us any victories. The struggle in which we’re involved in is an eternal struggle.
We are not working for ourselves, individually. We are working for generations to come. Therefore, what I’ve done you ain’t even begin to see.
Generations later will come to thank us for the work we’ve done now.”
— Kwame Ture (Formerly known as Stokely Carmichael)
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