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The African proverb if you wish to move mountains tomorrow you must start by lifting stones today, means that if you want to make a difference or a change, you have to start today. If you don't start today, you will never accomplish your goal.In the proverb mountains symbolize change, it doesn't matter what type of change, just change. Stones symbolize action to make this change. In order to make a change in the world you have to take action to make that change, you can't just wish that it will magically happen, you have to take action. In our day and age, many people believe that they can accomplish their goal in one day, but not everything in life can come that easily to you. For example, if you wish to end poverty, you can't just end it in one donation, you have to make all of your life decisions to help accomplish that goal. Some goals can't fully be accomplished in one lifetime, like having the goal to have full racial equality, this goal has and will take generations to complete. Some changes could be in education like how African Americans had to fight for education and other necessities in the Civil War after being discouraged by white masters claiming that educating blacks will lead to rebellion and disconnect. Yet whites didn't know that the action of not educating African Americans was one of the reasons that lead to rebellion.