I was so over-the-top proud of my girl, Hillary, at the convention last night. I was going to write a blog about her speech, but then my friend and fellow blogger Tom beat me to the punch. So you can read my favorite quote from her speech at his site.
Instead, I'll just give a shout out to the women from decades ago who marched and fought and wouldn't give up on their dream of equality, who made it possible for me to have a voice and make a difference. We've had the right to vote for 88 years now, and never has it been more important to stand up and be heard and make the right choice -- for someone who will continue to fight for us and help bring a brighter tomorrow.
Instead, I'll just give a shout out to the women from decades ago who marched and fought and wouldn't give up on their dream of equality, who made it possible for me to have a voice and make a difference. We've had the right to vote for 88 years now, and never has it been more important to stand up and be heard and make the right choice -- for someone who will continue to fight for us and help bring a brighter tomorrow.
Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today--with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be.
-- BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jan. 3, 2008
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