shirley chisholm. she ran up to shirley chisholm and said, wow, i'm impressed with you and i want to work on your campaign. she said, you're going to have to vote for -- first and let's get signed up. that modeling is very important. carrie lee, i wonder if you could speak to what makes sense. it is not out here, it is appeared that we feel more in >>ne. i think that our generation of leaders and the generation right below us, we have to be aware of the fact that we can change all of this and this is really our responsibility. we have a lot of young people out there in the audience and i urge you to reach out and create those relationships with women who are one or two steps beyond. we need to be really conscious about how we mentor people and the kind of encouragement that we get. so many of the studies around women are concerns about the coming political and they focus on the fundamental sense that they are not qualified and they do not know enough yet. the need to be more well- qualified than the ma

she had not voted when she met shirley chisholm. she ran up to shirley chisholm and said, wow, i'm impressed with you and i want to work on your campaign. she said, you're going to have to vote for -- first and let's get signed up. that modeling is very important. carrie lee, i wonder if you could speak to what makes sense. it is not out here, it is appeared that we feel more in >>ne. i think that our generation of leaders and the generation right below us, we have to be aware of the fact that we can change all of this and this is really our responsibility. we have a lot of young people out er

she had not voted when she met shirley chisholm.he ran up to shirley chisholm and said, wow, i'm impressed with you, and i want to work on your campaign. she said, you're going to have to vote first, and let's get signed up. that modeling is very important. carrie lee, i wonder if you could speak to what makes sense. it is not out here, it is up here where women feel more in line. >> i think that our generation of leaders and the generation right below us, we have to be aware of the fact that we can change all of this and this is really our responsibility. we have a lot of young people out there in the audience and i urge you to reach out and create those relationships with women who are one or two steps beyond. we need to be really conscious about how we mentor people and the kind of encouragement that we give. so many of the studies around women are concerns about the coming political and they focus on the fundamental sense that they are not qualified and they do not know enough yet, they need to be more well- qualified than the m

i saw this in my first political heroine, shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman electedd when she ran for the presidency in the face of hopeless odds, to demonstrate and listen closely to this, the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. words to live by. many of you saw that spirit in 2008 as you watched hillary clinton drop 18 million crack into the glass ceiling. tonight, in spate of all else, i believe that spirit is alive and well. we knew they weren't going to let us into the all boys' club so we just decided to kick in the door. [applause] throughout this race, we didn't exactly fit the mold or play by the rules, but as the many who came before me observed, well-behaved women rarely mick history. so yes, i will continue to stand up and speak out. in this moment there is too much at stake to do otherwise. yes, i will continue to hold elected officials accountable, as we all should, and i will continue to defend the downtrodden and disenfranchised and at the end of the day, at my very core, i am still the daughter of an italian immigrant butcher who dropped

the great shirley chisholm, a shero of mine, when asked how she wanted to be remembered, said that she didn't want to be remembered as the first black woman elected to the congress nor as the first black woman to pursue the u.s. presidency. instead, she simply wanted to be remembered as a black woman who dared to be herself. so, sisters, this is our -- tonge and our charge ensure that every girl feels empowered to dare to be themselves. because you see, only then will they ever fully truly dare to be political. thank you. [applause] >> all right. [applause] elizabeth warren is the u.s. senator from massachusetts. while she greatly regrets she cannot be with us tonight, she sent us a video instead. please note that this video was taped before the events of the government shutdown. [laughter] evening and thank you to the grimke event planning committee for inviting me to join you tonight. could be with you in person but we are going to have to settle for this video. i'm glad to be here to mark the anniversary of angelina grimke's historic speech to the massachusetts general assembly and

[applause] it belongs to shirley chisholm and bella abzug and patsy mink.in the future, it would be great for robin morgan, susan brown levine -- i'm just lobbying a little bit here -- joanne edgar, barbara smith, gloria anzaldua. and so many more. and it has already honored rosa parks and rachel carson and dorothy hyde and delores huerta. and my dear friend, chief of the cherokee nation, wilma mankiller, who i accompanied when she received her medal. now, of course, it's with all of that illustrious company i get uppity. i can remember that dick cheney received -- as did henry hyde, whose self-named amendment has hurt uncounted numbers of women, especially low income women, for the last 37 years and we're still counting, right? but, the power of this honor may be even more evident in the withholding than in the giving. i was reminded by ellen chesler, biographer of margaret sanger, that president lyndon johnson, even as he signed the first federal and international family planning act into law, refused to bestow the medal of freedom on sanger. he feared re