NY Magazine: Read Joe Biden's Powerful Speech About Combating Violence Against Women

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/bidens-speech-on-combatting-domestic-violence.html?mid=google&google_editors_picks=true

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On December 10, International Human Rights Day, Vital Voices held its Solidarity Awards in New York City, recognizing men working to combat violence against women. Tina Brown, Diane Von Furstenberg and Sally Field, all board members, as well as Seth Meyers, and his wife, Alexi Ashe, who is involved with human rights issues, were on hand for the ceremony at the IAC building. Honorees were Sir Patrick Stewart, Don McPherson, South African activist Bafana Khumalo, and Vice President Joe Biden, who made an impassioned speech in which he discussed his family and childhood, revealed that he roughed up a boy who had beat up his younger sister in junior high, and talking about how he initiated the legislation known as the Violence Against Women Act. Daily Intelligencer has the full text of the speech below:
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