He showed us that we can be redeemed, how we can make something of ourselves, a symbol of how you can arise to greatness from poverty. I was a skeptic about his politics. I just saw him as a modern-day hero.

I remember once, he said this to me and it made me realize I was wrong, ‘When I fight, I make them happy for Sunday, then proud on Monday, and then by Tuesday, we all go back to our miserable ways. I want to eradicate that so that people are not thinking about where their next meal is coming from.’