00:00She has shaped debates on the intersection of sex and race.
00:10Perhaps no one since Robert Kennedy has inspired the kind of devotion and the kind of opposition that Bella Abzug
00:20inspires.
00:21And I suggest that we ought to look to see why that is true.
00:25She speaks for the powerless groups of this country, and she speaks loud.
00:30She dares to say a lot of things that the establishment politicians do not dare to say.
00:35It's now in Toledo, Ohio, my hometown, where the factory is being made to pay back pay to women who
00:46have never been paid equally for the same work.
00:48And it's the kind of blue-collar working woman who needs these reforms the most, I think.
00:54And also poor women and welfare women.
01:00But I think it really is going forward on all levels at once.
01:04And it's an important bridge between black women and white women.
01:33The U.N. Command.
01:34It's a purely U.S. government.
01:36It's hard to imagine any more physical symbol of the insanity of dividing human beings than this zone.
01:50And, therefore, to me, to walk across it has huge, huge, huge importance.
02:00How's the light?
02:01Is it full 20 or not?
02:03Is it okay?
02:04Yeah, no, it's okay.
02:04It's good?
02:04Okay.
02:13Yeah, this is pretty.
02:14Okay.
02:21Before I came here, I looked up to see who was the oldest woman in the world.
02:28And I discovered a woman in the Himalayas who was 130.
02:33So I'm glad to say that I have those years to live up to the award tonight.
02:39Thank you so much.
02:50There was a letter in the được of Bob Brant 35.
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