He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. So each of you right here today could help swing an entire precinct and win this election for Hillary just by getting yourselves, your families, and your friends and neighbors out to vote. They are husbands and brothers and sons who don't tolerate women being treated and demeaned and disrespected. I'm sure that many of you do too, particularly the women. My answer: going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that's drowning out everything else. Empathy, that’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. There’s a lot of beauty in that story. We live in a nation that is deeply divided, and I am a Black woman speaking at the Democratic Convention. President Trump posts unedited ‘60 Minutes’ interview on Facebook. By Washington Post Staff. Now here I am, out on the campaign trail in an election where we have consistently been hearing hurtful, hateful language about women. Michelle Obama's DNC 2016 speech: Read the transcript in full. All right, let's get to work. He cannot meet this moment. I’ve heard your stories. Your soon-to-be congresswoman once again, Carol Shea Porter – all of whom have been just terrific friends to us. When he was a young senator, Joe lost his wife and his baby daughter. So while I’d love nothing more than to pretend like this isn’t happening, and to come out here and do my normal campaign speech, it would be dishonest and disingenuous of me to just move on to the next thing like this was all just a bad dream. So each of you right here today could help swing an entire precinct and win this election for Hillary just by getting yourselves, your families and your friends and your neighbors out to vote. This wasn't "locker room banter." They can summon our better angels or awaken our worst instincts. How would they feel being uprooted from their school, their friends, and the only home they’d ever known? Get a good education." And he listens. It’s what we teach our children. And voting ourselves is a great start, but we also have to step up and start organizing. There is so much at stake in this election. And last week we saw this candidate actually bragging about sexually assaulting women. They’re purging voter rolls. It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted. You see, while our mother, grandmothers, were often powerless to change their circumstances, today, we as women have all the power we need to determine the outcome of this election. Is that what we want for our children? How can we continue to be a beacon of freedom and justice and human dignity?