Ani Lucia Lopez-Bellosa

They were not knocked out, they got up, they fought, and they won.

When Martin Luther King Jr.

and Coretta Scott King began a movement, they were knocked down, they were not knocked out, they got up, they fought, they won.

Same-sex marriage, universal health care, they were knocked down, they fought, and they won.

And we are gonna fight, and we are gonna win.

We are knocked down, we are not knocked out.

This is a fight that we are going to win because we know in this country that progress has never come from silence.

It has never come from surrender.

It has never come from sitting on the sidelines.

It comes because people get up and they fight.

And they win.

So that is what tonight is all about.

It has come from people, ordinary people, standing together and saying enough to corruption, enough to cruelty, enough to policies that sacrifice the vulnerable for the powerful because our power is not in the Oval Office.

It is not a billionaire CEO's bank account.

It is not a corporate boardroom.

Our power is in the movement.

It's on the streets of this country.

It's our voices.

It's our votes.

It's our willingness to stand together, to fight for those who are most vulnerable in our society, to fight for our democracy itself.