Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Women's rights are human rights

My Speech students are giving their final speeches of the semester this week. Their assignment was to visit this site and present one of these great American speeches. While I was previewing the speeches that the students chose, I was reminded of one of my very favorite speeches, given by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton at a United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing:



The message is still so relevant today, a fact which is simultaneously uplifting and discouraging.

1 comment:

Shan said...

This was a great speech. Thank you for sharing!