Hillary Recognizes Seneca Falls in DNC Speech

  FingerLakes1.com
  8/27/08 @ 12:02 am

On Tuesday evening, Hillary Clinton addressed the crowd in Denver at the Democratic National Convention and an international television audience delivering a highly anticipated speech.

After watching a moving video tribute to her campaign and career, the Democratic Senator from New York and former First Lady called for unity behind Barack Obama before a wildly supportive crowd.

Towards the end of her speech, to a rousing applause, Senator Clinton made a significant mention of Seneca Falls, NY and the important history of equal rights movements rooted in Upstate New York:

"America is still around after 232 years because we have risen to the challenge of every new time, changing to be faithful to our values of equal opportunity for all and the common good.

And I know what that can mean for every man, woman, and child in America. I'm a United States Senator because in 1848 a group of courageous women and a few brave men gathered in Seneca Falls, New York, many traveling for days and nights, to participate in the first convention on women's rights in our history.

And so dawned a struggle for the right to vote that would last 72 years, handed down by mother to daughter to granddaughter – and a few sons and grandsons along the way.

These women and men looked into their daughters' eyes, imagined a fairer and freer world, and found the strength to fight. To rally and picket. To endure ridicule and harassment. To brave violence and jail.

And after so many decades – 88 years ago on this very day – the 19th amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote would be forever enshrined in our Constitution.

My mother was born before women could vote. But in this election my daughter got to vote for her mother for President."

Click 'play' below for the end of Hillary Clinton's speech last night. She begins talking about Seneca Falls and the Women's Rights Movement 3 minutes at 50 seconds into this video:

To read the full transcript of Hillary Clinton's speech click here

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