8 Best Quotes From The Democratic Convention

“According to Donald Trump, I’m probably a rapist.”

“According to Donald Trump my body is like probably a 2.”

“I’m ninth generation American. My family never crossed a border, the border crossed us. So when Donald Trump calls us criminals and rapists, he’s insulting American families. My father is not a criminal or rapist, in fact, he’s a United States veteran. When Trump cruelly mocked a disabled reporter, he was also mocking my special-needs sister Lisa and many like her. When he said that a wife who works is a very dangerous thing, he not only insulted me, he insulted my mother who worked as a special-education teacher for 40 years and raised four children while being a wife.”

“Today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.”

“What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit. And it takes grace.”

“If you were sitting where I’m sitting, and you heard what I have heard at every dinner conversation, every lunch conversation, every walk, you would say, this woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anything!”

“Democracy works, but we gotta want it – not just during an election year, but all the days in between.”

“Like millions of Americans, I am living with mental illness. But I am lucky. I had the resources and support to get treatment at a top facility. Unfortunately, too many Americans from all walks of life don’t get help, whether they fear the stigma or cannot afford treatment.”