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You're right that we need to fight, but we will grow old and die before we've returned the world to a state our children deserve to live in. I don't mean to diminish our duty, but to say that creating the next generation of people to continue that fight is part of that duty. Not for our children's sake, but hopefully for our great grandchildren and every generation afterwards.