Hillary Clinton Quotes
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights — and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.
Clinton, Hillary. "Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session." 5 Sept. 1995, Beijing, China.
She was in China as a delegate to the international congress and not in an official capacity as a representative and First Lady of the United States. Nonetheless, such implied criticism of the Chinese leadership in their own capital.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She was the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election; however, she failed to win the Electoral College.
