The reward after the criticism (Kaepernick)

       Recently Colin Kaepernick has been getting a lot of praise even though he hasn't been protesting in the field because he hasn't been picked up by any team. But he has still been protesting through social media and through speeches. And for this he has been rewarded not only by recognition but also by rewards like citizen of the year by GQ, which is a international monthly men's magazine based in New York City, and also was praised by ACLU, which is a the American Civil Liberties Union is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization. But even though he has been getting lots of praise by all these organization and lots of people throughout the country, he still gets hate by people like Donald Trump because of his ideas, but how does Kaepernick keep going and how did he keep on going when the NFL was against him. Does he know that he will later get rewarded later or does he strongly believe his ideas that he will be willing to stand alone?