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“When they go low, we go high.”
Source: Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, 25 July 2016
Context On the opening night of the Democratic convention, she described how she and her husband taught their daughters to respond to hateful public attacks, in a speech backing Hillary Clinton.
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