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The world is waiting for you graduation speeches to live by from activists, writers, and visionaries

"With more than a dozen contemporary graduation speeches that dissect the world as it is and imagine what it could be, [this book] brings forth the courageous people who've dared to transform the podium into a pulpit for championing peace, justice, protest, and a better world"--Provid...

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Other Authors: Grove, Tara (Editor), Ostrer, Isabel (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Baccalaureate addresses.
College graduates > Conduct of life.
Speeches.
Summary: "With more than a dozen contemporary graduation speeches that dissect the world as it is and imagine what it could be, [this book] brings forth the courageous people who've dared to transform the podium into a pulpit for championing peace, justice, protest, and a better world"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description: 208 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781620970904 (hbk.)
1620970902 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Tara Grove is the education editor at The New Press. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York City. Isabel Ostrer is a recent graduate of Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They both went to college to figure out how they could make the world a more humane place to live.

List of Contributors/Speech Locations
Anna Quindlen – Grinnell College, 2011 (Grinnell, Iowa)
Wynton Marsalis – Connecticut College, 2001 (New London, Connecticut)
Barbara Kingsolver – Duke University, 2008 (Durham, North Carolina)
Marian Wright Edelman – Muhlenberg College, 2008 (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
Noam Chomsky – American University of Beirut, 2013 (Lebanon)
Toni Morrison – Rutgers University, 2011 (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
Gloria Steinem – Smith College, 2007 (Northampton, Massachusetts)
Tony Kushner – Vassar College, 2002 (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Kalamazoo College, 2009 (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
Paul Farmer – University of Delaware, 2013 (Newark, Delaware)
Martha Nussbaum – Connecticut College, 2009 (New London, Connecticut)
Oliver Stone – UCLA, 2009 (Los Angeles, California)
Paul Hawken – University of Portland, 2009 (Portland, Oregon)
Isabel Wilkerson – Bates College, 2014 (Lewiston, Maine)
Howard Zinn – Spelman College, 2005 (Atlanta, Georgia)
Cecile Richards – Barnard College, 2014 (New York, New York)
Theodore Shaw – Wesleyan University, 2014 (Middletown, Connecticut)
Ursula K. Le Guin – Mills College, 1983 (Oakland, California)

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