Clinton to Atlanta activists: 'We are better than this'
Democrat Hillary Clinton urged civil rights activists in Atlanta Friday to respond to President Donald Trump’s racist tweets that four liberal congresswoman of color should “go back” to their countries by getting mobilized for the 2020 vote.
“We are better than this, but we better start proving it, not just saying it,” the 2016 Democratic nominee told a crowd of hundreds at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s convention in Atlanta. “It can’t just be a battle fought in Twitter. It has to be fought and won at the ballot box - which is the only place that matters.”
She also praised the work of the civil rights group once helmed by Martin Luther King Jr., saying we “need you now more than ever.”
“There’s no doubt the struggles we face now are as consequential as those we faced in the 1950s,” she said, but added that activists need to “do a better job of persuading young people to join this cause.”
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