# @michelleobama on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DB7I8ohRbBF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24551331-michelleobama-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-03T21:19:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) — https://gondola.cc/MichelleObama

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Last week in Michigan, I met a woman named Delphine Klaput who will be turning 100 years old later this month — but you wouldn’t have known it.
 
She was just the sweetest little thing — all smiles, sharp as a tack, with that glint in her eye of someone who understands what really matters in life. In her hair, Delphine wore a red handkerchief with white polka dots — just like Rosie the Riveter.
 
In the 1940s, Delphine was a clerk in an American bomber factory, running small parts and blueprints from worker to worker. She helped win a war before she was 20 years old.

Just think of everything she’s lived through. A stock market crash and depression, a World War and a Cold War. Delphine has seen Babe Ruth and Serena Williams, she’s seen Selma, the internet, Sandy Hook. She’s seen Roe v. Wade and its rollback, she’s seen Jim Crow and “I Have a Dream” and “Yes We Can.”
 
After all that, when she thinks about this country, she sees the same thing I do, the same thing you do, and these are her words — she says: this is “a wonderful, compassionate country.”
  
We have a lot of work to do in this country. But it is joyful and purposeful work. And it is an undeniable fact that we live in a more perfect union than when we started — when most folks couldn’t vote because they weren’t a man, or White, or a landowner.
 
It is an undeniable fact that my mother, who I just lost this year, wasn’t welcomed at department stores as a young woman, but for eight years, she had the best view in America from her room in the White House.
 
It is an undeniable fact that her journey, that Delphine’s journey, that all of our journeys — were possible only because of people who fought for it and bled for it and protested for it and yes, voted for it. That’s how it works in this country — we’ve got to vote. So make sure to honor their sacrifices by voting this Tuesday, November 5th.

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michelle Obama | @MichelleObama | https://gondola.cc/MichelleObama | Politician |
| Eric Elofson | @filmber | https://gondola.cc/filmber | Photographer |

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