By: Mohamed Salieu Kamara UK-Based Human Rights Activist Campaigning for Democracy and Human Rights
18th June 2024
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it. Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it. We have a vast land, we must cultivate enough crops to feed the people of this nation. Progress lies in the will of the people to work.
If our country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work. No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our country and not just of our respective political parties. You don’t necessarily need bullet for bullet or bombs for bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.
We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, tribes and nationality. Every human requires food, water, electricity, good roads and good medical condition to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves in our nation. A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws. If the vast land of our nation is cultivated, there will be enough food for human kind, an approach to end hunger. A Nation must be built by discipline, good health and Love
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation. We will never know peace and stability in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality, when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. Human skill development in any nation is key for economic growth. Freedom is free as long as you are not forced to pay for it A nation without a leader is bad, even worse is a home without peace. The people must purpose to pray for the peace of this country.
No country should be given power over another. In addition, no country should be granted privileges that are denied to others. No one country has the authority to decide which country will be embargoed, denied to protect itself, and will be favored based on the weight of their resources. Eliminate the hypocrisy. Every nation has its struggles, but when the people come together, they are at their best. The youth of any society are the true engine of growth and development; they should be rightly empowered.
What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective! The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people. A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people. When I think of establishing a network, it’s like I’m looking down at a map of a nation- a nation that I’ve created. Youth is the strength of any nation.
Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy. One who is not proud of his nation, institution or family, cannot be proud of self, and converse is also true. Current Identity politics at its finest, where being National comes with a ‘terms and conditions.
Let’s all be citizens that the Forces are ‘proud to protect the nation. The worth of the nation is its working youth. A nation that fails to educate its youth today deprive its self of better adults in the future. An educated nation is a powerful and prosperous nation. A nation’s strength lies in a working youth. A Nation must not run by enforcing strict laws, rather, must run by the quality education and Freedom. If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it at the first place.
