Proclamations Proc. 7334 All Americans stand to benefit from the success of our minority entre- preneurs. With energy and determination, these hardworking men and women create jobs, attract investment, bolster pride, and generate revenue in communities across our Nation. People of different races, people of di- verse ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities--all have skills, new ideas, and flesh perspectives to bring to the marketplace. Minority entre- preneurs have unique contributions to make to our economy and the talent and imagination to produce goods and services that meet the needs of their fellow Americans and of consumers around the world. The unprecedented strength of America's flee enterprise system dem- onstrates that when people have access to the tools and opportunities they need, there is no limit to what they can achieve. During Minority Enter- prise Development Week, let us reaffirm our national commitment to equal- ity in the economic as well as the civic life of our Nation by providing mi- nority entrepreneurs around the country with an equal opportunity to use their abilities, creativity, and motivation to move our Nation forward. By doing so, we will help preserve America's leadership in the global econ- omy. NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitu- tion and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 24 through September 30, 2000, as Minority Enterprise Development Week. I call on all Americans to join together with minority entrepreneurs across the country in appropriate observances. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand, and of the Independ- ence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-fifth. WILLIAM J. CLINTON Proclamation 7334 of August 26, 2000 Women's Equality Day, 2000 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation In March of 1776, 4 months before the signing of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, Abigail Adams sent a letter to her husband John in Philadelphia, where he was participating in the Second Continental Congress. "...[I]n the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make," she wrote, "I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more gen- erous and favourable to them than your ancestors." Almost a century and a half would pass before her desire was realized with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women's suffrage. The road to civic, economic, and social equality for women in our Nation has been long and arduous, marked by frustrations and setbacks, yet in- spired by the courageous actions of many heroic Americans, women and men alike. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone--these and so many others 131
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