VP Harris: ‘We Are Once Again Forced to Defend Fundamental Principles that We Hoped Were Long Settled’

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HARRIS: "In the United States, we are once again forced to defend fundamental principles that we hoped were long-settled: principles like the freedom to vote, the rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies — (applause) — even what constitutes the truth, especially in an era when anyone can post anything online and claim it is a fact. We must also grapple with the urgent issues that have not been settled. Some of them have been accelerated during your lifetime, like the need to address the climate crisis. Some we have been struggling with since the founding of our nation: disparities in who has access to health care, disparities in how people are treated by the criminal justice system, disparities in wealth and who has access to the capital required to succeed and thrive. And, graduates, I look at this unsettled world and, yes, I then see the challenges, but I’m here to tell you, I also see the opportunities."