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Whatever words people contacted by polling organizations associate with Hillary Clinton, women all over the globe associate Hillary Clinton with the speech.  This is that speech.  These are the words that billions of women associate with Hillary.

Today is the 20th anniversary of this speech.  It has been posted here before.  I once had the pleasure of watching my TA from China listening to it for the first time.   I am posting it again.  There is always someone who has not seen or heard it.  Here is that speech thanks to the Clinton Presidential Library.

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.‘s 1995 speech still rings true today. Freedom means not jailing women who disagree w/you

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This is a great recollection of that famous day and what led up to the historic speech by Hillary’s Senior Strategic Communications Advisor, Karen Finney.

5 Things You Might Not Know About Hillary Clinton’s Famous Beijing Speech

Hillary Clinton at the United Nations Fourth World Conference On Women, 1995

20 years ago, I got the chance to be part of a moment that would change the world. I was in Huairou, China, a small town outside of Beijing, where representatives from non-governmental organizations who couldn’t attend the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women had gathered. When Hillary Clinton stood before delegates from 189 countries to call attention to women’s rights, it was electric.

Women from every corner of the planet had come to Beijing and Huairou for the conference. Everywhere I looked, I saw women translating ideas across languages and cultures. I remember watching women lift up colleagues in wheelchairs when meeting spaces didn’t have elevator access.

We were all determined to be there.

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Hillary Clinton will sit down with veteran NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell on Friday for the third national interview of her presidential campaign.

The exclusive interview, which will first air on Mitchell’s 12 p.m. MSNBC program, comes one day ahead of the 20th anniversary of Clinton’s Beijing speech on women’s rights, which Mitchell covered for the network in 1995.

“Mitchell will ask the former Secretary of State about her presidential campaign, the GOP field, her email controversy” as well as the Beijing speech, NBC News said in a press release.

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Some of the team from Beijing ’95 who declared women’s rights are human rights. Great reunion today, more work to do.

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