AOC Compared Climate Change and the World Ending in 12 Years to the Civil Rights Movement

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “And for all those people, you know, you want to look about — you want to talk about looking back on history, looking backwards, you look back and you open history books on the Civil Rights movement and you see those folks who are protesting against the ability for African-Americans and black Americans to have the right to vote, and they would hold up these bigoted signs and they would hold up signs that said 'What about white rights?' and all of this stuff in 1950s, 1960s. So just know that in the present day there are a lot of people who hide the fact that their families and their grandparents fought against the principles of equal rights in the United States, not a hundred years ago, not 80 years ago, but in this generation's lifetime. So just know that while a lot of people can hide that their grandparents did that in Civil Rights movement, you should also know that the Internet documents everything and your grandchildren will not be able to hide the fact that you fought against acknowledging and taking bold actions on climate change. And people who are trying to mock and delay this moment, I mean, I just feel bad for you. I just pity you for your role in history right now."