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"--Provided by publisher...
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Learn not to listen / Anna Quindlen
- Be in time / Wynton Marsalis
- Hope to be hopeful / Barbara Kingsolver
- To all my children / Marian Wright Edelman
- Who will defend the earth? / Noam Chomsky
- The pursuit of meaningfulness / Toni Morrison
- Go the distance / Gloria Steinem
- The world is waiting for you / Tony Kushner
- Allow hope but also fear / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- On empathy and reason / Paul Farmer
- Not for profit / Martha Nussbaum
- Know your history / Oliver Stone
- The earth is hiring / Paul Hawken
- Make this world a better place / Isabel Wilkerson
- Against discouragement / Howard Zinn
- Listen to your mother / Cecile Richards
- Don't wait to change the world / Theodore M. Shaw
- A left-handed commencement address / Ursula K. Le Guin.
