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Hilary Clinton spoke in front of a sold out crowd at UConn Wednesday. FOX CT's Jeevan Vittal has more.

STORRS Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a targeted message to millennials at a speech Wednesday night at the University of Connecticut: participate.

"The great question for your generation and for those of us in positions of influence or leadership [is]: do we want to continue to be a country where everyone has an equal shot to participate and to live up to their full potential?'' Clinton asked. "Or are we ready to break faith with all that has gone on before and accept leaving a growing number of our fellow citizens marooned, sitting on the sidelines?"

Left unsaid was whether Clinton, a Democrat who is considering a run for president, will remain on the sidelines herself in 2016.

But her remarks to about 2,300 people at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts had the familiar ring of a campaign stump speech.

Clinton hit many of the notes her college campus audience would expect. She congratulated the UConn men's and women's basketball teams on their duel NCAA championships, dutifully naming the stars on each team.

She gave a shout-out to Yale law school classmate, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal in the front row, adding slyly, "I'm hoping he doesn't tell anybody what we did in law school."

But the bulk of Clinton's 30-minute speech was a pep talk to college students. "This is an open-minded, tolerant generation,'' she said, "and one of the examples of that is the speed with which support for [gay rights] have advanced in recent years. In large measure that's because of millennials.

"So when I look at this audience and look out more broadly at students and young people across our country, I am hopeful,'' she said. "And we desperately need your energy and your talents. We need in others words your participation."

Clinton is much in demand on the lecture circuit, and is making a lucrative living addressing big crowds across the nation since leaving her post as U.S. secretary of state last year.

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Hillary Clinton Urges UConn Crowd: Get Involved, Take A Stand