Hillary Clinton Full Speech at 2024 Democratic National Convention
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Aug 19, 2024
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Hillary Clinton at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL: 'We refused to give up on America. Millions marched. Many ran for office. We kept our eyes on the future. Well, my friends, the future is here! I wish my mother and Kamala's mother could see us. They would say, 'Keep going!''
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Transcript
- 0:00
- please welcome former Secretary of State
- Hillary
- Clinton I
- Tok you
- thank you so much thank
- you thank
- you thank you all so much
- 1:02
- thank
- you thank you my fellow
- Democrats thank you my fellow Americans
- thank you so
- much
- yo thank you
- all thank you thank
- you thank you
- 2:00
- thank
- you thank you so
- much
- wow there's a lot of energy in this room
- just like there is across the
- country something something is happening
- in
- America you can feel
- it something we've worked for and
- dreamed of for a long
- time first
- though let's salute President
- Biden he he has
- been democracy's champion at home and
- abroad
- 3:00
- he brought
- dignity decency and confidence back to
- the White
- House and he showed what it means to be
- a true
- patriot thank you Joe Biden for your
- lifetime of service and Leadership
- and
- now and now we are writing a new chapter
- in America's story you know my mother
- Dorothy was born right here in Chicago
- before women had the right to
- vote that change
- 4:01
- 104 years ago
- yesterday think about it Tennessee
- became the final
- state to ratify the 19th Amendment to
- the
- Constitution the state legislature was
- deadlocked
- until one lawmaker's mother a Widow who
- read three newspapers a day sent a
- letter a letter to her son no more
- delays she wrote give us the vote and
- since that day every generation has
- carried the torch forward in 1972 a
- Fearless black congresswoman named
- Shirley Chisum
- 5:06
- she ran for
- president and her determination let me
- and millions of others dream bigger not
- just because of who she was but because
- of who she fought for working parents
- poor children the last the least and the
- lost in
- 1984 I brought my daughter to see
- Geraldine Ferraro the first woman
- nominated for vice
- president if we can do this Jerry said
- we can do
- anything and then there was 2016 when it
- was the honor of my life to accept our
- party's nomination for president
- 6:09
- and and nearly 66 million Americans
- voted for a future where there are no
- ceilings on our
- dreams and
- afterwards we refused to give up on
- America Millions marched many ran for
- office we kept our eyes on the future
- well my friends the future is
- here I wish my mother and kamla's mother
- could see us they would say keep going
- shley and Jerry would say keep
- 7:08
- going
- women women fighting for Reproductive
- Health Care are saying keep
- going families building Better Lives
- parents stretching to afford Child Care
- young people struggling to pay their
- rent they're all asking us to keep
- going
- so with faith in each other and joy in
- our hearts let's send kamla Harris and
- Tim Walls to the White
- House you know
- 8:03
- the story of my life and the history of
- our country is that progress is possible
- but not
- guaranteed we have to fight for it and
- never ever give up there is always a
- choice do we push forward or pull back
- come together as we the people or split
- into US versus them
- that's the choice we face in this
- election kamla has the character
- experience and vision to lead us
- forward I know her heart and her
- Integrity we both got our start as young
- lawyers helping children who were abused
- and neglected
- that kind of work changes a person those
- 9:03
- kids stay with you kamla carries with
- her the hopes of every child she
- protected every family she helped every
- Community she served so as president she
- will always have our
- backs and she will be a fighter for us
- she will fight to lower costs for
- hardworking families open the doors wide
- for good paying jobs and yes she will
- restore abortion rights
- Nationwide as a
- prosecutor kamla lock up murderers and
- 10:00
- Drug traffickers she will never rest in
- defense of our freedom and
- safety Donald Trump fell asleep at his
- own trial and when he woke up he made
- his own kind of History the first person
- to run for president with 34 felony
- convictions
- as vice
- president as vice president Kamala sat
- in the Situation Room
- 11:02
- but we also know as vice president
- Kamala sat in the situation room and
- stood for America's values I know what
- it takes and I can tell you as commander
- and chief kamla won't disrespect our
- military and our
- veterans
- she she reveres our Medal of Honor
- recipients she won't be sending love
- letters to
- [Applause]
- 11:43
- dictators she will defend democracy and
- 11:47
- our
- 11:48
- Constitution and will protect America
- 11:51
- from enemies foreign and domestic
- 12:01
- think about it the Constitution says the
- 12:06
- president's job is to take care that the
- 12:11
- laws be Faithfully executed those are
- 12:15
- the words of our Founders take care just
- 12:19
- look at the
- 12:21
- candidates Cent cares cares about kids
- 12:25
- and families cares about
- 12:27
- America Donald only cares about
- 12:31
- [Applause]
- 12:33
- himself on her first day in court kamla
- 12:38
- said five words that still guide her
- 12:42
- kamla Harris for the
- 12:48
- people that is something that Donald
- 12:51
- Trump will never understand so it is no
- 12:55
- surprise is it that he is lying about
- 12:58
- comm's record he's mocking her name and
- 13:02
- her laugh sounds
- 13:08
- familiar but we have him on the run
- 13:22
- now
- 13:23
- so so no matter what the polls say we
- 13:29
- can't let
- 13:31
- up we can't get driven down crazy
- 13:36
- conspiracy rabbit holes we have to fight
- 13:39
- for the truth we have to fight for kamla
- 13:42
- as she will fight for us because you
- 13:45
- know
- 13:46
- what it still takes a village to raise a
- 13:49
- family heal a country and win a campaign
- 14:00
- and America needs every one of us our
- energy our talents our
- dreams we're not just electing a
- president we're uplifting our
- nation we're opening the promise of
- America wide enough for
- everyone together we put a lot of cracks
- in the highest hardest glass ceiling
- and
- tonight tonight so close to breaking
- through once and for all I want to tell
- you what I see through all those cracks
- and why it matters for each and every
- one of us what do I see I see
- freedom I
- see the freedom to make our own
- decisions about our our health Our lives
- 15:01
- our loves our
- families the freedom to work with
- dignity and prosper to worship as we
- choose or not to speak our minds freely
- and
- honestly I see Freedom From Fear and
- intimidation from violence and Injustice
- from chaos and
- Corruption I see the freedom to look our
- children in the eye and say in America
- you can go as far as your hard work and
- talent will take you and mean it and you
- know what on the other side of that
- glass ceiling is kamla Harris raising
- her hand and taking the oath of office
- as our 47th president of the United
- United
- 16:09
- States
- because my friends when a barrier Falls
- for one of us it falls it falls and
- clears the way for all of us so for the
- next 78 days we need to work harder than
- we ever have we need to beat back the
- dangers that Trump and his allies pose
- to the rule of law and our way of life
- don't get distracted or complacent talk
- to your friends and Neighbors volunteer
- be proud champions for the truth and for
- the country that we all
- love I
- want I want my grandchildren and their
- 17:01
- grandchildren to know I was here at this
- moment that we were here and that we
- were with pela Harris every step of the
- way this is our time America this is
- when we stand up this is when we break
- through the future is here it's in our
- grass let's go with it
- this is
- my still gotot l in me I think it's fair
- to say
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