WEBVTT 00:00:01.638 --> 00:00:03.982 Billie Jean King: Hi, everyone! 00:00:04.006 --> 00:00:06.348 (Applause) 00:00:06.372 --> 00:00:07.550 Thanks, Pat. 00:00:07.574 --> 00:00:09.132 Thank you! 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:13.516 Getting me all wound up, now! 00:00:13.540 --> 00:00:14.764 (Laughter) 00:00:14.788 --> 00:00:15.975 Pat Mitchell: Good! 00:00:16.641 --> 00:00:20.538 You know, when I was watching the video again of the match, 00:00:20.562 --> 00:00:22.610 you must have felt like 00:00:22.634 --> 00:00:25.018 the fate of the world's women 00:00:25.372 --> 00:00:27.880 was on every stroke you took on that. 00:00:28.446 --> 00:00:29.963 Were you feeling that? 00:00:30.907 --> 00:00:32.485 BJK: First of all, Bobby Riggs -- 00:00:32.509 --> 00:00:36.180 he was the former number one player, he wasn't just some hacker, by the way -- 00:00:36.204 --> 00:00:39.086 he was one of my heroes and I admired him. 00:00:39.848 --> 00:00:43.283 And that's the reason I beat him, actually, it's because I respected him. 00:00:43.307 --> 00:00:44.459 (Laughter) 00:00:44.483 --> 00:00:47.460 It's true, my mom and dad, always said: "Respect your opponent, 00:00:47.817 --> 00:00:49.981 and never underestimate them, ever." 00:00:50.005 --> 00:00:52.293 And he was correct -- he was absolutely correct. 00:00:53.245 --> 00:00:55.282 But I knew it was about social change, 00:00:56.962 --> 00:01:00.324 and I was really nervous about whenever we announced it, 00:01:00.348 --> 00:01:03.217 and I felt like the whole world was on my shoulders. 00:01:03.241 --> 00:01:08.902 And I thought, "If I lose, it's going to put women back 50 years, at least." 00:01:08.926 --> 00:01:12.829 Title IX had just been passed the year before -- June 23, 1972, 00:01:13.892 --> 00:01:15.793 and women's professional tennis -- 00:01:16.490 --> 00:01:19.763 there were nine of us who signed a one-dollar contract in 1970 -- 00:01:19.787 --> 00:01:21.886 now remember the match is in '73. 00:01:22.454 --> 00:01:25.614 So we were only in our third year of having a tour 00:01:25.638 --> 00:01:29.898 where we could actually play, have a place to compete and make a living. 00:01:29.922 --> 00:01:32.918 So there were nine of us that signed that one-dollar contract. 00:01:32.942 --> 00:01:37.449 And our dream was for any girl, born any place in the world -- 00:01:37.935 --> 00:01:39.493 if she was good enough -- 00:01:39.517 --> 00:01:43.628 there would be a place for her to compete and for us to make a living. 00:01:43.652 --> 00:01:47.412 Because before 1968, we made 14 dollars a day, 00:01:47.436 --> 00:01:49.888 and we were under the control of organizations. 00:01:49.912 --> 00:01:52.105 So we really wanted to break away from that. 00:01:52.129 --> 00:01:54.845 But we knew it wasn't really about our generation so much, 00:01:54.869 --> 00:01:56.919 we knew it was about the future generations. 00:01:56.943 --> 00:02:00.948 We do stand on the shoulders of the people that came before us, there is no question. 00:02:00.972 --> 00:02:03.505 But every generation has the chance to make it better. 00:02:04.265 --> 00:02:06.682 That was really on my mind. 00:02:06.706 --> 00:02:10.326 I really wanted to start matching the hearts and minds to Title IX. 00:02:10.350 --> 00:02:12.307 Title IX, in case anybody doesn't know -- 00:02:12.331 --> 00:02:14.380 which a lot of people don't probably know -- 00:02:14.404 --> 00:02:18.438 any federal funds given to a high school, college or university, 00:02:18.462 --> 00:02:20.536 either public or private, 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:25.462 had to finally give equal monies to boys and girls. 00:02:25.909 --> 00:02:27.400 And that changed everything. 00:02:27.424 --> 00:02:30.250 (Applause) 00:02:30.274 --> 00:02:32.032 So you can have a law, 00:02:32.056 --> 00:02:34.971 but it's changing the hearts and minds to match up with it. 00:02:34.995 --> 00:02:37.542 That's when it really rocks, totally. 00:02:37.566 --> 00:02:38.717 So that was on my mind. 00:02:38.741 --> 00:02:42.330 I wanted to start that change in the hearts and minds. 00:02:42.354 --> 00:02:45.146 But two things came out of that match. 00:02:45.170 --> 00:02:48.326 For women: self-confidence, empowerment. 00:02:48.350 --> 00:02:50.892 They actually had enough nerve to ask for a raise. 00:02:51.675 --> 00:02:55.516 Some women have waited 10, 15 years to ask, 00:02:55.838 --> 00:02:57.839 I said, "More importantly, did you get it?" 00:02:57.863 --> 00:02:59.014 (Laughter) 00:02:59.038 --> 00:03:00.539 And they did! 00:03:00.563 --> 00:03:01.947 And for the men: 00:03:01.971 --> 00:03:04.802 a lot of the men today don't realize it, 00:03:04.826 --> 00:03:09.886 but if you're in your 50s, 60s or whatever, late 40s, 00:03:10.255 --> 00:03:13.303 you're the first generation of men of the Women's Movement -- 00:03:13.855 --> 00:03:15.147 whether you like it or not! 00:03:15.171 --> 00:03:18.193 (Laughter) 00:03:18.217 --> 00:03:19.500 (Applause) 00:03:19.524 --> 00:03:20.675 And for the men, 00:03:20.699 --> 00:03:23.314 what happened for the men, they'd come up to me -- 00:03:23.338 --> 00:03:26.439 and most times, the men are the ones who have tears in their eyes, 00:03:26.463 --> 00:03:27.614 it's very interesting. 00:03:27.638 --> 00:03:30.453 They go, "Billie, I was very young when I saw that match, 00:03:31.675 --> 00:03:33.029 and now I have a daughter, 00:03:35.193 --> 00:03:37.990 and I'm so happy I saw that as a young man." 00:03:38.588 --> 00:03:42.137 And one of those young men, at 12 years old, was President Obama, 00:03:43.001 --> 00:03:45.654 and he actually told me that when I met him, he said: 00:03:45.678 --> 00:03:48.636 "You don't realize it, but I saw that match at 12, 00:03:48.660 --> 00:03:52.963 and now I have two daughters and it has made a difference in how I raise them." 00:03:52.987 --> 00:03:57.704 So both men and women got a lot out of it but, different things. NOTE Paragraph 00:03:58.276 --> 00:04:01.431 PM: And now there are generations -- at least one or two -- 00:04:01.455 --> 00:04:04.155 who have experienced the equality 00:04:04.179 --> 00:04:09.065 that Title IX and other fights along the way made possible. 00:04:09.089 --> 00:04:13.477 And for women, there are generations who have also experienced teamwork. 00:04:13.501 --> 00:04:17.754 They got to play team sports in a way they hadn't before. 00:04:18.146 --> 00:04:23.227 So you had a legacy already built in terms of being an athlete, 00:04:23.251 --> 00:04:28.506 a legacy of the work you did to lobby for equal pay for women athletes 00:04:28.530 --> 00:04:30.804 and the Women's Sports Foundation. 00:04:31.368 --> 00:04:34.070 What now are you looking to accomplish 00:04:34.094 --> 00:04:37.050 with The Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative? 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:40.208 BJK: I think it goes back to an epiphany I had at 12. 00:04:40.232 --> 00:04:43.233 At 11, I wanted to be the number one tennis player in the world, 00:04:43.257 --> 00:04:46.568 and a friend had asked me to play and I said, "What's that?" -- 00:04:47.098 --> 00:04:50.573 tennis was not in my family -- basketball was, other sports. 00:04:50.597 --> 00:04:52.465 Fast forward to 12 years old, 00:04:52.489 --> 00:04:54.149 (Laughter) 00:04:54.173 --> 00:04:57.655 I'm finally starting to play in tournaments where you get a ranking -- 00:04:57.679 --> 00:04:59.408 you know, at the end of the year. 00:04:59.432 --> 00:05:02.801 So I was daydreaming at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, 00:05:02.825 --> 00:05:07.237 and I started thinking about my sport and how tiny it was, but also 00:05:07.613 --> 00:05:11.262 that everybody who played wore white shoes, white clothes, 00:05:11.286 --> 00:05:14.007 played with white balls -- everybody who played was white. 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:19.842 And I said to myself, at 12 years old, "Where is everyone else?" 00:05:22.222 --> 00:05:25.373 And that just kept sticking in my brain. 00:05:25.397 --> 00:05:26.548 And that moment 00:05:26.572 --> 00:05:29.526 I promised myself I'd fight for equal rights and opportunities 00:05:29.550 --> 00:05:32.298 for boys and girls, men and women, the rest of my life. 00:05:32.779 --> 00:05:36.991 And that tennis, if I was fortunate enough to become number one -- 00:05:37.015 --> 00:05:39.970 and I knew, being a girl, it would be harder to have influence, 00:05:40.530 --> 00:05:42.108 already at that age -- 00:05:42.531 --> 00:05:44.577 that I had this platform. 00:05:46.301 --> 00:05:47.969 And tennis is global. 00:05:49.451 --> 00:05:51.192 And I thought, "You know what? 00:05:52.185 --> 00:05:55.091 I've been given an opportunity that very few people have had." 00:05:55.115 --> 00:05:58.070 Now, I didn't know if I was going to make it, this was only 12. 00:05:58.094 --> 00:05:59.245 I sure wanted it -- 00:05:59.269 --> 00:06:01.222 but making it's a whole other discussion. 00:06:01.246 --> 00:06:05.449 I just remember I promised myself, and I really try to keep my word. 00:06:06.174 --> 00:06:09.976 That's who I truly am, just fighting for people. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.210 And, unfortunately, women have had less, 00:06:15.031 --> 00:06:17.300 and we are considered less. 00:06:17.324 --> 00:06:19.592 And so my attentions, where did they have to go? 00:06:19.616 --> 00:06:21.801 It was just ... you have to -- 00:06:21.825 --> 00:06:23.881 And also learn to stick up for yourself, 00:06:23.905 --> 00:06:25.056 hear your own voice. 00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:28.417 You hear the same words keep coming out all the time, 00:06:28.441 --> 00:06:32.158 and I got really lucky because I really had an education. 00:06:32.182 --> 00:06:34.460 And I think if you can see it you can be it, 00:06:34.484 --> 00:06:36.990 you know -- if you can see it, you can be it. 00:06:37.014 --> 00:06:39.018 You look at Pat, you look at other leaders, 00:06:39.042 --> 00:06:41.188 you look at these speakers, look at yourself, 00:06:41.212 --> 00:06:42.870 because everyone -- 00:06:42.894 --> 00:06:44.252 everyone -- 00:06:44.276 --> 00:06:46.089 can do something extraordinary. 00:06:46.113 --> 00:06:47.555 Every single person. NOTE Paragraph 00:06:47.579 --> 00:06:51.812 PM: And your story, Billie, has inspired so many women everywhere. 00:06:52.287 --> 00:06:55.158 Now with the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative, 00:06:55.182 --> 00:06:57.366 you're taking on an even bigger cause. 00:06:57.390 --> 00:07:00.680 Because one thing we hear a lot about is women taking their voice, 00:07:01.438 --> 00:07:04.865 working to find their way into leadership positions. 00:07:04.889 --> 00:07:07.721 But what you're talking about is even bigger than that. 00:07:07.745 --> 00:07:09.974 It's inclusive leadership. 00:07:09.998 --> 00:07:13.588 And this is a generation that has grown up thinking more inclusively -- 00:07:13.612 --> 00:07:15.664 BJK: Isn't it great? Look at the technology! 00:07:15.688 --> 00:07:20.309 It's amazing how it connects us all! It's about connection. 00:07:20.333 --> 00:07:23.947 It's simply amazing what's possible because of it. 00:07:23.971 --> 00:07:26.411 But the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative 00:07:26.435 --> 00:07:29.499 is really about the workforce mostly, and trying to change it, 00:07:29.523 --> 00:07:31.685 so people can actually go to work 00:07:32.231 --> 00:07:33.868 and be their authentic selves. 00:07:33.892 --> 00:07:36.151 Because most of us have two jobs. 00:07:36.953 --> 00:07:39.572 One, to fit in -- I'll give you a perfect example -- 00:07:39.596 --> 00:07:43.066 an African American woman gets up an hour earlier to go to work, 00:07:43.090 --> 00:07:44.947 straightens her hair in the bathroom, 00:07:44.971 --> 00:07:47.959 goes to the bathroom probably four, five, six times a day 00:07:47.983 --> 00:07:50.984 to keep straightening her hair, to keep making sure she fits in. 00:07:51.008 --> 00:07:52.251 So she's working two jobs. 00:07:52.275 --> 00:07:54.774 She's got this other job, whatever that may be, 00:07:54.798 --> 00:07:57.008 but she's also trying to fit in. 00:07:57.032 --> 00:08:01.075 Or this poor man who kept his diploma -- 00:08:01.099 --> 00:08:02.815 he went to University of Michigan -- 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:06.160 but he never would talk about his poverty as a youngster, ever, 00:08:06.184 --> 00:08:07.424 just would not mention it. 00:08:07.448 --> 00:08:09.624 So he made sure they saw he was well educated. 00:08:10.338 --> 00:08:12.782 And then you see a gay guy who has an NFL -- 00:08:12.806 --> 00:08:15.447 which means American football for all of you out there, 00:08:15.471 --> 00:08:17.449 it's a big deal, it's very macho -- 00:08:17.473 --> 00:08:19.430 and he talked about football all the time 00:08:19.454 --> 00:08:21.982 because he was gay and he didn't want anybody to know. 00:08:22.006 --> 00:08:24.874 So it just goes on and on. 00:08:24.898 --> 00:08:31.011 So my wish for everyone is to be able to be their authentic selves 24/7, 00:08:31.035 --> 00:08:32.841 that would be the ultimate. 00:08:32.865 --> 00:08:36.091 And we catch ourselves, I mean, I catch myself to this day. 00:08:36.415 --> 00:08:38.562 Even being gay I catch myself, you know, like, 00:08:38.586 --> 00:08:39.736 (Gasp) 00:08:40.464 --> 00:08:43.552 A little uncomfortable, a little surge in my gut, 00:08:43.576 --> 00:08:46.474 feeling not totally comfortable in my own skin. 00:08:48.655 --> 00:08:50.518 So, I think you have to ask yourself -- 00:08:50.908 --> 00:08:54.055 I want people to be themselves, whatever that is, just let it be. NOTE Paragraph 00:08:54.079 --> 00:08:58.242 PM: And the first research that the Leadership Initiative did showed that -- 00:08:58.266 --> 00:09:01.051 these examples that you just used -- 00:09:01.075 --> 00:09:05.880 that many of us have the problem of being authentic. 00:09:05.904 --> 00:09:09.929 But what you've just looked at is this millennial generation, 00:09:09.953 --> 00:09:13.491 who have benefited from all these equal opportunities -- 00:09:13.515 --> 00:09:15.676 which may not be equal but exist everywhere -- NOTE Paragraph 00:09:15.700 --> 00:09:17.419 BJK: First of all, I'm really lucky. 00:09:17.443 --> 00:09:21.975 Partnership with Teneo, a strategic company that's amazing. 00:09:21.999 --> 00:09:24.172 That's really the reason I'm able to do this. 00:09:24.593 --> 00:09:25.978 I've had two times in my life 00:09:26.002 --> 00:09:28.688 where I've actually had men really behind me with power. 00:09:28.712 --> 00:09:32.002 And that was with the old days with Philip Morris with Virginia Slims, 00:09:32.026 --> 00:09:34.360 and this is the second time in my entire life. 00:09:34.384 --> 00:09:35.733 And then Deloitte -- 00:09:37.157 --> 00:09:40.441 the one thing I wanted was data, facts -- 00:09:40.465 --> 00:09:42.192 so Deloitte sent out a survey, 00:09:42.216 --> 00:09:46.221 and we're around over 4,000 now, people who have answered, 00:09:46.245 --> 00:09:48.129 and we're continuing in the workplace. 00:09:48.871 --> 00:09:51.300 And what they feel, what the millennials feel? 00:09:52.157 --> 00:09:55.418 Well, they feel a lot, but what they're so fantastic about is -- 00:09:55.442 --> 00:09:58.970 you know, our generation was like, "Oh, we're going to get representation." 00:09:58.995 --> 00:10:01.663 So if you walk into a room you see everybody represented. 00:10:01.688 --> 00:10:04.277 That's not good enough anymore, which is so good! 00:10:04.301 --> 00:10:06.211 So the millennials are fantastic -- 00:10:06.235 --> 00:10:08.560 they want connection, engagement. 00:10:08.584 --> 00:10:11.969 They just want you to tell us what you're feeling, what you're thinking, 00:10:11.993 --> 00:10:14.569 and get into the solution -- they're problem solvers -- 00:10:14.593 --> 00:10:17.407 and of course, you've got the information at your fingertips 00:10:17.431 --> 00:10:20.133 compared to when I was growing up. NOTE Paragraph 00:10:20.157 --> 00:10:22.685 PM: What did the research show you about millennials? 00:10:22.709 --> 00:10:24.428 Are they going to make a difference? 00:10:24.452 --> 00:10:28.469 Are they going to create a world where there is really an inclusive work force? 00:10:28.493 --> 00:10:34.385 BJK: Well, in 2025, 75 percent of the global workforce 00:10:34.409 --> 00:10:35.849 is going to be millennials. 00:10:36.202 --> 00:10:38.489 So I think they are going to help solve problems. 00:10:38.513 --> 00:10:40.514 I think they have the wherewithal to do it. 00:10:40.538 --> 00:10:42.204 I know they care a lot. 00:10:42.228 --> 00:10:46.704 They have big ideas and they can make big things happen. 00:10:47.109 --> 00:10:49.352 I want to stay in the now with the young people, 00:10:49.376 --> 00:10:51.285 I don't want to get behind. 00:10:52.673 --> 00:10:54.344 (Laughter) 00:10:54.368 --> 00:10:56.174 PM: I don't think there's any chance! NOTE Paragraph 00:10:57.604 --> 00:11:00.599 PM: But what you found out in the research about millennials 00:11:00.623 --> 00:11:05.250 is not really the experience that a lot of people have with millennials. 00:11:05.274 --> 00:11:09.038 BJK: No, well, if we want to talk -- OK, I've been doing my little mini survey. 00:11:09.062 --> 00:11:12.353 I've been talking to the Boomers, who are their bosses, and I go, 00:11:12.713 --> 00:11:16.073 "What do you think about the millennials? I'm pretty excited!" 00:11:16.098 --> 00:11:17.248 Like, it's good. 00:11:17.273 --> 00:11:18.706 And they get this face -- 00:11:19.093 --> 00:11:21.735 (Laughter) 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:23.442 "Oh, you mean the 'Me Generation'?" 00:11:23.466 --> 00:11:25.047 (Laughter) 00:11:25.071 --> 00:11:28.560 And I say, "Do you really think so? I do think they care about environment 00:11:29.123 --> 00:11:31.418 and all these things." 00:11:31.442 --> 00:11:32.646 And they go, "Oh, Billie, 00:11:34.458 --> 00:11:35.927 they cannot focus." 00:11:35.951 --> 00:11:38.736 (Laughter) 00:11:38.760 --> 00:11:43.814 They actually have proven that the average focus for an 18 year old is 37 seconds. 00:11:43.838 --> 00:11:45.407 (Laughter) 00:11:45.431 --> 00:11:46.830 They can't focus. 00:11:46.854 --> 00:11:48.263 And they don't really care. 00:11:48.287 --> 00:11:50.128 I just heard a story the other night: 00:11:50.152 --> 00:11:52.582 she owns a gallery and she has these workers, 00:11:53.547 --> 00:11:55.752 she gets a text from one of the workers -- 00:11:56.736 --> 00:11:59.384 she's like an intern, she's just starting -- she goes, 00:11:59.408 --> 00:12:02.790 "Oh, by the way, I'm going to be late because I'm at the hairdresser's." 00:12:02.815 --> 00:12:07.727 (Laughter) 00:12:07.751 --> 00:12:10.450 So she arrives, and this boss says, 00:12:11.587 --> 00:12:12.738 "What's going on?" 00:12:12.762 --> 00:12:15.288 And she says, "Oh, I was late, sorry, how's it going?" 00:12:15.312 --> 00:12:19.412 She says, "Well, guess what? I'd like you leave, you're finished." 00:12:19.436 --> 00:12:20.802 She goes, "OK". 00:12:20.826 --> 00:12:23.895 (Laughter) 00:12:24.410 --> 00:12:26.057 "No problem!" 00:12:26.081 --> 00:12:29.107 I know, but that's what scares the boomers -- 00:12:29.131 --> 00:12:31.994 I'm just telling you -- so I think it's good for us to share. 00:12:32.018 --> 00:12:33.641 (Laughter) 00:12:33.665 --> 00:12:35.095 No, it is good for us to share 00:12:35.119 --> 00:12:38.030 because we're our authentic self and what we're really feeling 00:12:38.054 --> 00:12:40.483 and we've got to take it both ways, you know? NOTE Paragraph 00:12:40.507 --> 00:12:42.455 But I have great faith because -- 00:12:42.479 --> 00:12:44.356 if you've been in sports like I have -- 00:12:45.396 --> 00:12:47.029 every generation gets better. 00:12:47.053 --> 00:12:48.338 It's a fact. 00:12:48.362 --> 00:12:52.371 With the Women's Sports Foundation being the advocates for Title IX still, 00:12:52.395 --> 00:12:55.865 because we're trying to keep protecting the law because it's always -- 00:12:55.889 --> 00:12:57.817 it's in a tenuous position always -- 00:12:57.841 --> 00:12:59.721 so we really are concerned, 00:12:59.745 --> 00:13:01.436 and we do a lot of research. 00:13:01.460 --> 00:13:03.134 That's very important to us. 00:13:03.158 --> 00:13:05.383 And I want to hear from people. 00:13:05.407 --> 00:13:10.856 But we really have to protect what Title IX stands for worldwide. 00:13:10.880 --> 00:13:15.646 And you heard President Carter talk about how Title IX is protected. 00:13:16.598 --> 00:13:20.192 And do you know that every single lawsuit 00:13:20.216 --> 00:13:23.734 that girls, at least in sports, have gone up against -- 00:13:23.758 --> 00:13:26.167 whatever institutions -- 00:13:26.191 --> 00:13:27.592 has won? 00:13:27.616 --> 00:13:29.747 Title IX is there to protect us. 00:13:30.199 --> 00:13:31.788 And it is amazing. 00:13:31.812 --> 00:13:35.404 But we still have to get the hearts and minds -- 00:13:35.812 --> 00:13:38.549 the hearts and minds to match the legislation is huge. NOTE Paragraph 00:13:38.573 --> 00:13:40.656 PM: So what gets you up every morning? 00:13:40.680 --> 00:13:43.112 What keeps you sustaining your work, 00:13:43.136 --> 00:13:46.334 sustaining the fight for equality, extending it, 00:13:46.358 --> 00:13:49.789 always exploring new areas, trying to find new ways ... ? 00:13:49.813 --> 00:13:53.583 BJK: Well, I always drove my parents crazy because I was always the curious one. 00:13:54.678 --> 00:13:56.422 I'm highly motivated. 00:13:56.446 --> 00:14:00.225 My younger brother was a Major League Baseball player. 00:14:00.745 --> 00:14:03.296 My poor parents did not care if we were any good, 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:04.562 (Laughter) 00:14:04.586 --> 00:14:07.325 And we just, we drove them crazy because we pushed, 00:14:07.349 --> 00:14:09.351 we pushed because we wanted to be the best. 00:14:09.735 --> 00:14:14.035 And, I really -- 00:14:14.059 --> 00:14:17.413 I think it's because of what I'm hearing today at TED Talks, 00:14:17.858 --> 00:14:21.514 I think to listen to these different women, 00:14:21.538 --> 00:14:23.018 to listen to different people, 00:14:23.042 --> 00:14:24.824 to listen to President Carter. 00:14:24.848 --> 00:14:26.288 He's 90 years old, by the way, 00:14:26.312 --> 00:14:29.784 and he we was throwing these figures out that I would never -- 00:14:29.808 --> 00:14:30.962 I'd have to go, 00:14:30.986 --> 00:14:34.277 "Excuse me, wait a minute, I need to get a list out of these figures." 00:14:34.301 --> 00:14:36.978 He was rattling off -- I mean, that's amazing, I'm sorry. 00:14:37.931 --> 00:14:39.329 PM: He's an amazing man. 00:14:39.353 --> 00:14:42.061 (Applause) 00:14:42.085 --> 00:14:45.477 BJK: And then you're going to have President Mary Robinson, 00:14:45.501 --> 00:14:47.386 who's a former president -- 00:14:47.410 --> 00:14:52.292 Thank you, Irish! 62 percent! LGBTQ! Yes! 00:14:52.316 --> 00:14:53.470 (Applause) 00:14:53.494 --> 00:14:56.911 Congress is voting in June on same-sex marriage, 00:14:56.935 --> 00:15:00.871 so these are things that for some people are very hard to hear. 00:15:00.895 --> 00:15:03.676 But always remember, every one of us is an individual, 00:15:03.700 --> 00:15:06.192 a human being with a beating heart, who cares 00:15:06.968 --> 00:15:09.408 and wants to live their authentic life. 00:15:10.306 --> 00:15:13.905 OK? You don't have to agree with somebody, but everyone has the opportunity. NOTE Paragraph 00:15:15.824 --> 00:15:18.999 I think we all have an obligation 00:15:19.023 --> 00:15:23.887 to continue to keep moving the needle forward, always. 00:15:23.911 --> 00:15:25.909 And these people have been so inspiring. 00:15:26.775 --> 00:15:27.926 Everyone matters. 00:15:27.950 --> 00:15:29.764 And every one of you is an influencer. 00:15:29.788 --> 00:15:33.268 You out there listening, out there in the world -- plus the people here -- 00:15:33.292 --> 00:15:35.007 every single person's an influencer. 00:15:35.032 --> 00:15:37.579 Never, ever forget that. OK? 00:15:37.603 --> 00:15:39.923 So don't ever give up on yourself. NOTE Paragraph 00:15:40.622 --> 00:15:42.900 PM: Billie, you have been an inspiration for us. 00:15:42.924 --> 00:15:44.075 BJK: Thanks, Pat! 00:15:44.099 --> 00:15:47.913 (Applause) 00:15:47.937 --> 00:15:49.088 Thanks, TED! 00:15:49.112 --> 00:15:51.104 (Applause) 00:15:51.128 --> 00:15:52.278 Thanks a lot!