Hillary Clinton: Greta Thunberg’s U.N. Speech ‘Should Be Required Viewing for Every Lawmaker’

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HILLARY: “At first, she said, 'I tried to bring people along to join me but no one was really interested so I had to do it by myself.' Soon, though, students across Europe and then the world started following suit, first just by the dozens, then hundreds, then millions. And this week she delivered a powerful speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit that should be required viewing for every lawmaker. She spoke for so many in her own generation when she condemned world leaders lack of urgency in responding to climate change by saying, 'You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.' Now, I know she engendered a backlash from the climate change deniers, from the anti-anything coalition that takes on those who stand up and speak out and actually live in an evidence-based world instead of a fact free world. So she did engender this backlash which only made her message more significant, more important for every one of us to pay attention to, and I personally am grateful to her and what she is inspiring among young people across the world because never underestimate the power of women and girls not only to improve their own lives but to lift up families, communities and entire nations. And the women we recognize today embody that truth.”