Chelsea Clinton: Young People Should Use Their Anger to
Make a Difference
by William Bigelow 22 May 2014,
6:51 AM PDT
Chelsea Clinton, who
now fancies herself a motivational coach, told an audience at a conference on
women and technology in Newport Beach,
California, that the best way for
young people to motivate themselves to change the world is to tap into their
anger.
Taking a cue from the strident voice
of her mother, Clinton
said to young people, “What makes you most angry? What pisses you off?"
She added, "Think about what your talents and skills are. And match [them]
with what makes you angry — or, if you’re differently constituted, to what
makes you most happy and inspired.”
Drawing on her vast worldly
experience, Clinton said her own anger stems
from the fact that the world hasn’t yet reached the heights delineated in the
platform of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Of course, that was a plug for her mother, who said at that
conference, “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.”
The young Clinton
intoned, “For me, the thing that makes me angry is, no country in the world has
lived up to the promise of the Beijing
platform.” She added that the Clinton
Foundation is working on an initiative called No Ceilings: The Full
Participation Project, which is monitoring just how cooperative the world is
being in accommodating the standards of the Beijing conference.
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea V. Clinton
is the vice chair for the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s daughter.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and a co-chair, national finance council
at Ready for Hillary.
Susie Tompkins
Buell was a contributor at Ready for
Hillary, a member of the Hillary
Clinton California Women's Leadership Council, a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation, and is a national finance council member at Ready for Hillary.
Judy
Beck is a co-founder of Ready for
Hillary, and was a Virginia
Women’s Steering Committee member
for the 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign.
Allida
M. Black is a co-founder of Ready
for Hillary, and was a Virginia
Women’s Steering Committee member
for the 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign.
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