I learned that during the Cuban revolution Fidel asked young cadres what do they want to become, they answered and he asked next, from now on would you give up everything you cared and wanted to build in your life to devote for liberation, even when it would cost you everything.

It’s been 15 years since I hasn’t stopped building and fighting for this liberation and I looked into the mirror this morning before going to work, only to see myself have aged so much. Then I thought about all the friends and comrades who I have met, they all built something for their lives, but more importantly they’re no longer fighting for the liberation, somehow I’m the last person among them who still keep waking up every day for 33 years of my life, feeding poor people, going to meeting, organizing. I don’t have or don’t need a life partner, love to me isn’t reproduction, as I can’t reproduce anyway as an intersex person, I love the people, everyone who struggles with capitalism, everyone lost someone from oppression, everyone who perished. I was diagnosed with lung cancer, but I don’t think anyone else cared, so I keep waking up and fight, until I can’t anymore. Until the end.

You have to understand that people have to pay the price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle then goddamnit you don’t deserve to win. Let me say peace to you if you’re willing to fight for it.

Let me say in the spirit of liberation—I’ve been gone for a little while, at least my body’s been gone for a little while. But I’m back now and I believe that I’m back to stay.

I believe that I’m going to do my job and I believe that I was born not to die in a car wreck; I don’t believe that I’m going to die in a car wreck. I don’t believe I’m going to die slipping on a piece of ice; I don’t believe I’m going to die because I got a bad heart; I don’t believe I’m going to die because of lung cancer.

I believe that I’m going to be able to die doing the things I was born for. I believe that I’m going be able to die high off the people. I believe that I will be able to die as a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle. And I hope that each one of you will be able to die in the international proletarian revolutionary struggle or you’ll be able to live in it. And I think that struggle’s going to come.

Why don’t you live for the people?

Why don’t you struggle for the people?

Why don’t you die for the people?

https://www.marxists.org/archive/hampton/misc/why-dont-you-die-for-the-people.htm

It’s my honor to join you soon, Fred.