finish your schooling, become Guardians,
Speakers, Law Speakers, work within the system to make it right. You
can't stay on the outside and complain forever it's wrong. You have to
get inside and do something about it."
17 "Hey, man," laughed Screaming Boar, "we're nobodys. We're the
charity brats, the freeloaders. We can never be anything ….they won't
let us!"
18 "You won't let YOURSELVES," argued The Young Speaker, "you quit
before you even have a chance to win. There's NOTHING, not ANYTHING
that any of you can't do if you try, but you HAVE to TRY! If you just
give up and say you're nothing and never will BE anything, then that's
all you WILL BE- nothing.
19 But if you say 'I'm going to get out of this rut,' if you say, 'I'm
going to finish my education, learn to be something, find a decent
place for myself in this world,' then you can do it. I'm not saying
every one of you can become a Speaker or a Teacher or a Guardian, but
you can become something, earn an honest day's wages, and support your
family with dignity.
20 I see hospital attendants here, cooks, bakers, drivers, pilots,
anything you want to be, if you try. But you have to TRY! And while
you're fighting each other, you use up all your energy, you have
nothing left to fight with. You can pull your families out of these
charities.
You can give them decent homes.
21 Your brothers and sisters can go to school, but you have to want it,
want it enough to give up the hate, give up the anger and fight for it,
one little step at a time. A battle is won by one man that does one
thing at one particular time. You can win your battles, you CAN win
your war!"
22 The others nodded in agreement, but Screaming Boar threw down his
cup and walked off. Thundering Hawk