Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday said she fears autocrats will look to the United States as an example and tell women fighting for their rights to “be quiet.”
“When I travel around the world, or they visit with us here, one thing has become very clear to me. When we as Americans walk in those rooms, we walk in those rooms with our chin up and our shoulders back, with the self-appointed and earned authority to talk about the importance of democracy,” Harris said during a conversation with actress Sheryl Lee Ralph about reproductive rights.
“One of my fears is that in some country where some women are fighting for their right to have an education, that some autocrat is looking at them and saying, ‘Well, you look at what the United States is doing right now to women. You be quiet.’”
The vice president emphasized that Americans fighting for their rights will have an impact on people around the world.
“Let that be a reminder of many things, but most importantly, our power with our voice to have impact through our vote,” Harris said.
