Lawrence: Kamala Harris echoed Frederick Douglass in her final speech.

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Vice President Harris delivers her concession speech at Howard University. Also, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says Congress needs to contain Donald Trump’s corruption. And Professor Timothy Snyder shares his outlook for a second Trump term. Rep. James Clyburn, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Professor Timothy Snyder join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.
0:03.5	Good evening, Alex. Such a good point to make that it's a time to be grateful for just how much the Biden administration, President Biden, fast-tracked the nomination and confirmation of federal judges.
0:15.2	Yes, and maybe with a few more to go in The Lame Duck. We'll see.
0:17.8	Yes, absolutely. Thanks, Alex.
0:19.4	Have a good show. Thank you.
0:25.8	If there is no struggle, there can be no progress.
0:32.9	Frederick Douglas, who was born three-fifths of a person, according to the United States Constitution,
0:34.0	said that.
0:42.2	If there is no struggle, there can be no progress. Frederick Douglass's name was there, high above Kamala Harris, as she spoke today in front of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall
0:49.7	on the campus of Howard University. Frederick Douglass, like many slaves, never knew when he was born,
0:58.0	but took February 14th as his birthday because he remembered his mother, calling him her little
1:05.3	Valentine. Frederick Douglass lived 20 years a slave and then escaped.
1:12.4	His books and his lectures became some of the most important public proofs that slaveholders,
1:18.6	including presidents of the United States, were wrong in insisting that slaves were intellectually
1:24.0	inferior to their owners.
1:26.8	Frederick Douglass would be so proud and admiring of Kamala Harris.
1:32.8	He did not just fight for the right to vote for black men when only white men could vote.
1:39.3	He also fought for the right to vote for all women.
1:47.9	When he was editor of the newspaper, The North Star,
1:55.4	Frederick Douglass wrote, We hold woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man.
2:03.5	That was a very unpopular opinion among white men in this country at that time. And it remains an unpopular opinion among some white men in this country to this day. It may be that not enough
2:10.6	people in this country yet believe in the full equality of women to elect a woman president of the
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