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Quote by Frantz Fanon
Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it.
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Each generation faces a time when its purpose is not yet clear. It must discover what its “mission” is through the circumstances before it, then either carry that responsibility through or fail to do so. The quote presents this choice as unavoidable: a generation is accountable for how it responds to the task its time places before it.
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