This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one tha's on my mindtonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta.She's a lot like the millions of others who stood inline to make their voice heard in this election, exceptfor one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky;when someone like her could't vote for two reasons —because she was a woman and because of the color of herskin.
And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America — the heartache andthe hope; the struggle and the progress; the times wewere told that we ca't and the people who pressed onwith that American creed: Yes, we can.
At a time when wome's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up andspeak out and reach for the ballot. Yes, we can.
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