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They are gorgeous and headstrong, brilliant girls, who are a whole lot of brave.
And then there was Kate, who played high school football all four years, and actually wanted to drop out after the first, to go into the glee club, but when boys told her that girls couldn't play football, she decided to stay for all the little girls who would come after her.
For them, biology had shaped part of their destiny, and put, as Cassie once said, "everything noble out of reach for girls."
And when they told him that he had to go train girls, he had no idea what to expect.
So our overall commitment at the Carter Center is to promote human rights, and knowing the world as I do, I can tell you without any equivocation that the number one abuse of human rights on Earth is, strangely, not addressed quite often, is the abuse of women and girls.
About one out of four girls who enter American universities will be sexually assaulted before she graduates, and this is now getting a lot of publicity, partially because of my book, but other things, and so 89 universities in America are now condemned by the Department of Education under Title IX because the officials of the universities are not taking care of the women to protect them from sexual assault.
Another thing that's very serious about the abuse of women and girls is the lack of equal pay for equal work, as you know.
But anyway, those kinds of things, the resort to violence and the misinterpretation of the holy scriptures are what causes, are the basic causes, of abuse of women and girls.
The average man that might say, I'm against the abuse of women and girls quietly accepts the privileged position that we occupy, and this is very similar to what I knew when I was a child, when separate but equal had existed.
Even though they say, "I'm against discrimination against girls and women," they enjoy a privileged position.
I would say the best thing that we could do today is for the women in the powerful nations like this one, and where you come from, Europe and so forth, who have influence and who have freedom to speak and to act, need to take the responsibility on yourselves to be more forceful in demanding an end to racial discrimination against girls and women all over the world.
I have 12 grandchildren, four children, and 10 great-grandchildren, and I think often about them and about the plight that they will face in America, not only if they lived in Egypt or a foreign country, in having equal rights, and I hope that all of you will join me in being a champion for women and girls around the world and protect their human rights.
I will tell you a story of two different girls, two beautiful girls.
These girls grew up under the same roof.
There is this special day, which they call "Very Special Day" where a man who is hired by the community comes to the camp and sleeps with the little girls.
Imagine the trauma that these young girls go through every day.
Most girls end up pregnant.
That was the music that I was hearing every day, and that is the music that girls hear every day when they don't do something that the community needs them to do.
That was when I called other girls just like my sister, who have children, who have been in class but they have forgotten how to read and write.
And I'm here to say that in my community, it was the first community after girls pushed so hard to our traditional leader, and our leader stood up for us and said no girl has to be married before the age of 18. (Applause) In my community, that was the first time a community, they had to call the bylaws, the first bylaw that protected girls in our community.
We were determined to fight for girls not just in my community, but even in other communities.
Now, in Malawi, 18 is the legal marriage age, from 15 to 18. (Applause) It's a good thing to know that the bill passed, but let me tell you this: There are countries where 18 is the legal marriage age, but don't we hear cries of women and girls every day?
Every day, girls' lives are being wasted away.
In honoring this commitment, it means keeping girls' issues at heart every time.
We don't have to be subjected as second, but they have to know that women, as we are in this room, we are not just women, we are not just girls, we are extraordinary.
The law which has just recently passed and the laws that in other countries have been there, they need to be publicized at the local level, at the community level, where girls' issues are very striking.
Girls face issues, difficult issues, at the community level every day.
So if these young girls know that there are laws that protect them, they will be able to stand up and defend themselves because they will know that there is a law that protects them.
And another thing I would say is that girls' voices and women's voices are beautiful, they are there, but we cannot do this alone.
What we need is what girls elsewhere need: good education, and above all, not to marry whilst 11.
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