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Hillary Clinton: “Freedom was expanded to include in the United States, for…”

Featuring: Hillary Clinton, Democratic | Former Secretary of State, Former U.S. Senator, Former First Lady | National

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BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton Lambasts Trump During Munich Security Conference Panel

Published | Video Starts at 20:58

… let me add my version of history to the revisionism that I hear in not just this conversation but so many other places. It is, for me a blessing that Freedom was expanded to include in the United States, for example, the right of black people to be treated at least better than they had been for 400 or so years. It was a culmination of freedom for women to be given their rights much more fully than they had been. (20:58–21:12)

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Asserts that the expansion of freedom in the U.S. improved the treatment of black people over 400 years.

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