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Reparations means to their damage. The damage to us will be repaired when we have seized the power to control our lives, our land, and the resources that spring from it. The components of reparations, apologies, promissory notes, money, precious metals and stones, technology transfers, freedom for political prisoners, transparent voluntary community parole boards, legislation in the enemies' arenas, new communities, etc.—are steps which must be taken to educate, agitate, and resolve some long standing problems in the short and long term on the road to reparations.

If reparations are given to us here within America, what effect will it have on us as an establisher of society? What results can we as a whole envision is given monetary and/or land reparations? What does history throughout the world tell us about those victorious revolutions and their existence afterwards? And what has nationalism, egoism, despotism, monarchism, and religion done to shape such lives afterwards? We must ask ourselves: what is the purpose and aim of our movement and struggles? Are they directed towards the accumulation of wealth and the creation of one of the above governments, rulerships, or unions utilized throughout the world today?

One who participates in any form of revolution must concisely evaluate its goals to measure them with the goals and struggles of those who failed or were momentarily victorious before them but, more importantly, in order to outlast our counterparts, we must know that our aims are consistent with the ends of the creator of the land, air, and sea, which the movement will undoubtedly depend on. For without the support of the source behind all creation, one's actions will become tiresome and unfounded in the long run.

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