In response to actress Sheryl Lee Ralph questioning why women constantly have to fight for their rights, Vice President Kamala Harris said women are vital to the 2024 election and must be “vigilant” to hold onto their rights.
“When we talk about freedom, why is it that we are still having to have a conversation over and over and over again about how important it is to trust women? Why do we have to keep talking about the choices that women must make for themselves? And why are we having to talk to so many women to let them know how important they are in this reelection on this subject and how important it is to vote for your own best interests?” Ralph asked at the conservation with Harris about reproductive rights in Pennsylvania.
“[Coretta Scott King] famously said: ‘The fight for civil rights,’ — and you can insert there the fight for equality and freedom — ‘must be fought and won with each generation.’ And when she said that, I think she had two points in mind. One is that it is the nature of these fights, that whatever we gain will not be permanent,” Harris replied. “Therefore, second point: We must be vigilant and not be overwhelmed when these moments happen, because the nature of it, the very nature of it, is we must be vigilant to hold on to these rights.”
