I care about my people, its well-being, its progress, its development, its gaining of education and knowledge, its productivity and self-sufficiency. That is the liberation of a people (of any people), raising one's guns and killing each other has nothing with liberation. If you don't have value of life, you can never liberate a person. If you value life, then you can't kill or condone the killing of human being.
As people of any sort we should always have a cause and defending that cause is incumbent on us, under the premise of harmonious and peaceful co-existence of all the stakeholders of the issues of our respective causes.
Today it is not through toting of one's guns that you defend your rights and promote your causes. It is through gaining of knowledge, through making of oneself competitive in the social, political, economic world order. For that the precondition is going to school and learning well enough.