On Thursday, Michelle Obama gave a speech in New Hampshire supporting Hillary Clinton. She strongly spoke about her thoughts about the infamous scandalous words of Donald Trump. She described the humiliation that women have gone through for ages. Her speech was a powerful condemnation of harassment that women go through on the streets and their workplaces.
Here are 13 powerful quotes from Michelle Obama's speech that got us nodding:
"I can't stop thinking about this. It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn't have predicted."
"This was not just lewd conversation. This wasn't just locker room banter. This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behaviour, and actually bragging about kissing and groping women.”
"The shameful comments about our bodies, the disrespect of our ambitions and intellect, the belief that you can do anything you want to a woman — it is cruel, it's frightening, and the truth is — it hurts."
“It reminds us of stories we heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how, back in their day, the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office, and even though they worked so hard, jumped over every hurdle to prove themselves, it was never enough,”
“We thought all of that was ancient history, didn’t we … but here we are, in 2016, and we’re hearing these exact same things every day on the campaign trail.”
"So many have worked for so many years to end this kind of violence and abuse and disrespect but here we are in 2016 and we're hearing these exact same things every day on the campaign trail. We are drowning in it.”
"Too many are treating this as just another day's headline. As if our outrage is overblown or unwarranted. As if this is normal. Just politics as usual ... This is not normal. This is not politics as usual. This is disgraceful. It is intolerable."
"This isn't about politics. It's about basic human decency. It's about right and wrong ... Now is the time for all of us to stand up and say 'enough is enough.' This has got to stop right now."
"To dismiss this as everyday locker room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere. Strong men, men who are truly role models, don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.”
"We're telling our sons that it's OK to humiliate women. We're telling our daughters that this is how they deserve to be treated. We're telling all our kids that bigotry and bullying are perfectly acceptable in the leader of their country."
"If we have a president who routinely degrades women, who brags about sexually assaulting women, then how can we maintain our moral authority in the world?”
“I listen to all of this and I feel it so personally, and I’m sure that many of you do too, particularly the women,” she said, her voice trembling with emotion as she addressed a gymnasium full of people in New Hampshire.
"It is intolerable. And it doesn't matter what party you belong to -- Democrat, Republican, independent -- no woman deserves to be treated this way. None of us deserves this kind of abuse."