A lot of his demands, it was very obvious to anyone who was paying attention, came from the movement. The next thing that we need to do is figure out how do we both hold the government we have because if we must end up, they ain't giving us nothing else. So this is where we get to stretch our thought process beyond movement and still hold movement. That movement is not the movement it was before Tuesday. It's not my life ain't either. There are people who want to do harm to me. Like real harm is really like me. Now that is a severe change, but there are changes to who we are today that we weren't choosing"
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