#politiclore

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The lesson isn’t ours to learn.

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this scene hits different now…

seeing other women shed tears yesterday because we’re all collectively devastated and feel unsafe breaks my heart.

thinking about the amount of women who came together and fought so hard in the past but especially this time around after our rights were stripped away.

women who have suffered and fought for decades to obtain basic rights like voting did not do so in vain. we do not take our right to vote for granted. we will fight to restore fundamental autonomy of our own bodies, and whether it’s now or later — we will win.

I firmly believe this will mobilize even more women and our time will come. the notion of having to protect ourselves isn’t new, but it’s clear too many people in this country do not want to protect us. so we must do so ourselves.

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Vice President Kamala Harris ending her speech with this hopeful message:

“To the young people who are watching, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed, but please know it’s going to be okay. On the campaign, I would often say, when we fight, we win. But here’s the thing, here’s the thing, sometimes the fight takes a while. That doesn’t mean we won’t win. That doesn’t mean we won’t win.

The important thing is, don’t ever give up. Don’t ever give up. Don’t ever stop trying to make the world a better place. You have power. You have power, and don’t you ever listen when anyone tells you something is impossible because it has never been done before.

You have the capacity to do extraordinary good in the world. And so to everyone who is watching, do not despair. This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves.

This is a time to organize, to mobilize and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together. Look, many of you know, I started out as a prosecutor, and throughout my career, I saw people at some of the worst times in their lives, people who had suffered great harm and great pain and yet found within themselves, the strength and the courage and the resolve to take the stand, to take a stand, to fight for justice, to fight for themselves, to fight for others. So let their courage be our inspiration. Let their determination be our charge.

And I’ll close with this, there’s an adage and historian once called a law of history, true of every society across the ages, the adage is, only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.

I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case. But here’s the thing, America, if it is, let us fill the sky with the light of a billion brilliant stars, the light of optimism, of faith, of truth and service.

And may that work guide us, even in the face of setbacks toward the extraordinary promise of the United States of America, I thank you all. May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America. I thank you all.”

[iwanthermidnightz]

in awe seeing kamala walk out to so gracefully give a speech that only a real leader could give at such a time as this. thank you vice president, we are so grateful for your leadership! proud to support you now and onward as we continue this fight toward a brighter future.

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