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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Hillary Rodham Clinton Appreciation Thread: Everyone's Mother
"I live in the United States," said I, "but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. Sometimes I am in Washington, then in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado. My address is like my shoes: it travels with me."
Mother Jones (1837-1930)
From 1995:
Speaking more forcefully on human rights than any American dignitary has on Chinese soil, Hillary Rodham Clinton catalogued a devastating litany of abuse that has afflicted women around the world today and criticized China for seeking to limit free and open discussion of women's issues here.
"It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights," Mrs. Clinton told the Fourth World Conference on Women assembled here.
"It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls," Mrs. Clinton said, or "when women and girls are sold into slavery or prostitution for human greed.
"It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small" she continued, or "when thousands of women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war."
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/06/world/hillary-clinton-in-china-details-abuse-of-women.html
If you live somewhere on this planet and want to preserve your right to have a child bride or commit infanticide against your newborn daughter because she was not born a boy or want to justify war "to protect the women" or want to "punish your enemy" by raping their wives and daughters or want to own African or Bangladeshi or "untouchable" slaves, then you should be very, very afraid of Hillary Clinton. The rest of us are looking forward to someone who thinks that other people's rights matter.
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A Hillary Rodham Clinton Appreciation Thread: Everyone's Mother (Original Post)
McCamy Taylor
Jul 2014
OP
I wonder if the Republicans have started moving toward impeachment proceedings yet
world wide wally
Jul 2014
#6
cali
(114,904 posts)1. there's something quite ironic about the line about justifying war
HRC does a lot of that.
Beyond that, I do give her credit for forcefully putting women's issues front and center. Alas, many of the policies she champions are not good for women or children.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)2. Love Hillary Clinton.
Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)3. Kicked and recommended.
Mrs. Clinton is amazing! (Also underappreciated, I think.)
BootinUp
(47,187 posts)4. Biggest Rec I can Give. nt
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)5. she talks about beauty and she talks about truth
for $10,000 a show.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)6. I wonder if the Republicans have started moving toward impeachment proceedings yet