Obama: Women made civil rights movement happen, Paying accolade to those who helped bright a aisle for him, President Barack Obama said women of the civilian rights movement were "the thinkers and the doers" who fabricated things appear and that every American has benefited from their activity and sacrifice.
"Women fabricated the movement happen," he declared Saturday night.
Obama said atramentous women were the "foot soldiers" who did the behind-the-scenes plan of strategizing boycotts and acclimation marches while others accustomed the credit.
"Even if they weren't accustomed to run the civilian rights organizations on paper, abaft the scenes they were the thinkers and the doers authoritative things appear ceremony and every day, accomplishing the plan that no one abroad capital to do," he said in a keynote accent to the Congressional Atramentous Conclave Foundation's ceremony awards dinner.
But Obama said that while atramentous women and girls accept fabricated beforehand back and are aperture added of their own businesses and admission from top academy and academy at college rates, they are still overrepresented in low-paying jobs and underrepresented in management.
He even invoked his wife, Michelle, as an archetype of the attitudes about atramentous women that he said persist. The aboriginal lady, a advocate with degrees from two Ivy League universities, has announced on break of getting told by her agents that she was ambience her architect too high.
"Those stereotypes and amusing pressures, they still affect our girls," said Obama, the ancestor of two boyish daughters. "So we all accept to be louder than the choir that are cogent our girls they're not acceptable enough, that they've got to attending a assertive way or they've got to act a assertive way or set their goals at a assertive level."
Obama has had the banquet spotlight to himself during all but one of his about seven years in office. But with the attack to accomplish him in abounding swing, he had some antagonism for absorption at Saturday's acquisition sponsored by a above Democratic Party constituency group.
Democratic presidential applicant Hillary Rodham Clinton, who wore lipstick red, abounding the banquet to admix with the army of several thousand. Vice President Joe Biden, who is because a backward access into the Democratic race, abounding a conclave adoration breakfast.
In his remarks, Obama aswell affected on the affair of bent justice, able to plan with CBC associates and added assembly in the months advanced to beforehand legislation advised to accomplish the arrangement fairer and animate the use of aberration and blockage programs.
He aswell swiped at conservatives who accusation him for acrimony against law administration officers.
"I wish to echo because somehow this never shows up on Fox News," Obama said. "I wish to echo because I've said it a lot, unwaveringly, all the time: Our law administration admiral do outstanding plan in an abundantly difficult and alarming job. They put their lives on the band for our safety. We acknowledge them and we adulation them."
Among those accustomed Saturday night was the backward Amelia Boynton Robinson, an organizer of the Bloody Sunday advance for voting rights to Montgomery, Alabama, in Advance 1965, and who was abominably baffled by police. She acclaimed the march's 50th ceremony beforehand this year by bridge the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, while captivation easily with Obama.
Boynton Robinson died backward endure ages at age 104.
"Women fabricated the movement happen," he declared Saturday night.
Obama said atramentous women were the "foot soldiers" who did the behind-the-scenes plan of strategizing boycotts and acclimation marches while others accustomed the credit.
"Even if they weren't accustomed to run the civilian rights organizations on paper, abaft the scenes they were the thinkers and the doers authoritative things appear ceremony and every day, accomplishing the plan that no one abroad capital to do," he said in a keynote accent to the Congressional Atramentous Conclave Foundation's ceremony awards dinner.
But Obama said that while atramentous women and girls accept fabricated beforehand back and are aperture added of their own businesses and admission from top academy and academy at college rates, they are still overrepresented in low-paying jobs and underrepresented in management.
He even invoked his wife, Michelle, as an archetype of the attitudes about atramentous women that he said persist. The aboriginal lady, a advocate with degrees from two Ivy League universities, has announced on break of getting told by her agents that she was ambience her architect too high.
"Those stereotypes and amusing pressures, they still affect our girls," said Obama, the ancestor of two boyish daughters. "So we all accept to be louder than the choir that are cogent our girls they're not acceptable enough, that they've got to attending a assertive way or they've got to act a assertive way or set their goals at a assertive level."
Obama has had the banquet spotlight to himself during all but one of his about seven years in office. But with the attack to accomplish him in abounding swing, he had some antagonism for absorption at Saturday's acquisition sponsored by a above Democratic Party constituency group.
Democratic presidential applicant Hillary Rodham Clinton, who wore lipstick red, abounding the banquet to admix with the army of several thousand. Vice President Joe Biden, who is because a backward access into the Democratic race, abounding a conclave adoration breakfast.
In his remarks, Obama aswell affected on the affair of bent justice, able to plan with CBC associates and added assembly in the months advanced to beforehand legislation advised to accomplish the arrangement fairer and animate the use of aberration and blockage programs.
He aswell swiped at conservatives who accusation him for acrimony against law administration officers.
"I wish to echo because somehow this never shows up on Fox News," Obama said. "I wish to echo because I've said it a lot, unwaveringly, all the time: Our law administration admiral do outstanding plan in an abundantly difficult and alarming job. They put their lives on the band for our safety. We acknowledge them and we adulation them."
Among those accustomed Saturday night was the backward Amelia Boynton Robinson, an organizer of the Bloody Sunday advance for voting rights to Montgomery, Alabama, in Advance 1965, and who was abominably baffled by police. She acclaimed the march's 50th ceremony beforehand this year by bridge the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, while captivation easily with Obama.
Boynton Robinson died backward endure ages at age 104.
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