Last updated on April 12th, 2013 at 10:31 pm
With her memoir predicted to be a best seller next year, Hillary Clinton took the stage at the Women in the World summit at New York’s Lincoln Center on Friday to continue her surge for global women’s rights. Fans lined up to see the former Secretary of State, who called women’s rights “the unfinished business of the 21st century.” In what could be viewed as a hat tip to 2016, she vowed, “I look forward to being your partner in all the days and years ahead.”
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Clinton said, “I have always believed that women are not victims. We are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace. All we need is a fighting chance.”
Though she was speaking broadly about global women’s issues, she didn’t shy away from the fact that women in America are also still working to achieve equality, “We now have American women at the high levels of business, academia, government, you name it. But as we’ve seen in recent months, we’re still asking age old questions of how to make the women’s way in male dominated fields. For too many American women the opportunity, and the dream of upward mobility, the American dream, remains elusive. That’s not the way it’s supposed to be.”
“If America is going to lead the way we expect ourselves to lead, we need to empower women here at home to participate fully in our economy and our society. We need to make equal pay a reality. We need to invest in our people so they can live up to their own God-given potential.”
“This truly is the unfinished business of the 21st century, and it is the work we are called to do. I look forward to being your partner in all the days and years ahead. Let’s keep fighting for opportunity and dignity. Let’s keep fighting for freedom and equality. Let’s keep fighting for full participation, and let’s keep telling the world over and over again that yes, women’s are human rights and human rights are women’s rights once and for all.”
Republicans thought they could destroy Hillary with their Benghazi conspiracy theories, but that was hardly her first rodeo wtih the GOP clown show. In spite of everythig they’ve done to try to destroy her, she’s one of America’s most popular politicians. Her SuperPAC is fired up and already taking out Karl Rove and Mitt Romney on social media. She’s a force to be reckoned with.
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