Philadelphia: On thursday night, Hillary Clinton formally accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president.

In a speech she said, that the nation is in a moment of reckoning and aggressively cast Republican nominee Donald Trump as a divisive figure stoking fear across the country.

"He wants to divide us from the rest of the world, and from each other," Clinton said.

"He's betting that the perils of today's world will blind us to its unlimited promise," added Clinton.

"He wants us to fear the future and fear each other," said Clinton.

Clinton, speaking as the first woman nominated for president by a major party, the former secretary of state, is giving the highest-profile address of her decades-long political career.

She portrayed herself as an inclusive leader throughout the address, an argument she used to amplify her claims that Trump is an almost dictatorial figure with little interest in taking the views and contributions of average Americans into account.

In an attempt to prevent Clinton from facing embarrassing jeers from Sanders supporters during her speech, his team texted supporters Thursday evening to encourage them to extend the same respect during Secretary Clinton's speech" that her supporters did during his remarks.