http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/020108.htmlThis is a commentary by Robin Morgan.
Thanks for reading.
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"So listen to her voice."
“For too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there
are those who are trying to silence our words.
“It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated,
or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. It is a violation of
human rights when woman and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution. It
is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire
and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small. It is a
violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities
and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war. It
is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide along women
ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes. It is a
violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families,
and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their
will.
“Women’s rights are human rights. Among those rights are the right to speak freely—and
the right to be heard.”
That was Hillary Rodham Clinton defying the U.S. State Department and the Chinese
Government at the 1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing (look here for the
full, stunning speech).
And this voice, age 22, in “Commencement Remarks of Hillary D. Rodham, President
of Wellesley College Government Association, Class of 1969.”
"Me? I support Hillary Rodham because she’s the best qualified of all candidates
running in both parties. I support her because she’s refreshingly thoughtful, and
I’m bloodied from eight years of a jolly “uniter” with ejaculatory politics. I needn’t
agree with her on every point. I agree with the 97 percent of her positions that
are identical with Obama’s—and the few where hers are both more practical and to
the left of his (like health care). I support her because she’s already smashed
the first-lady stereotype and made history as a fine senator, because I believe
she will continue to make history not only as the first U.S. woman president, but
as a great U.S. president.
As for the “woman thing”?
Me, I’m voting for Hillary not because she’s a woman—but because I am."
-Robin Morgan February 2008
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