8 Best Quotes From The Democratic Convention

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America Ferrera

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

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Lena Dunham

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

Eva Longoria

“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.”

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Michelle Obama

“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.”

Meryl Streep

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

Bill Clinton

“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!”

President speaking at a podium during the 2016 Democratic National Convention with a U.S. flag backdrop.

Barack Obama

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

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Demi Lovato

“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.”