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Marian Wright Edelman
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Commencement Speech at Tarbut V'Torah - unknown date
May 5, 2000
I hope you’re all going to wander off the beaten career path and help redefine success in 21st Century America and our world. Asking not how much can I get, but how much can I do without and share. And think not how can I find myself, how can I lose myself in service to others. Black church and community members were watchful extended parents. They reported on me when I did wrong and applauded when I did well. And they were very clear what doing well meant: it meant […]
Madeleine K Albright
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Commencement Address Mount Holyoke College - May 25, 1997
May 27, 1997
Thank you, President Creighton, and good morning, Mount Holyoke! To the entire Mount Holyoke community, I say thank you for the invitation to be here and thank you very much for the Honorary Degree. To the parents of the class of '97, I know how you feel. I have had three daughters graduate from college and always the emotions are mixed. You feel one part sad, one part relieved, one part broke and every part proud. To the graduates, I offer my heartfelt congratulations. This is the payoff for all […]
Kay Granger
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Remarks at North Central Texas Regional Police Academy Graduation - May 4, 2007
May 4, 2007
Thank you, Paul, for that introduction. And thanks to all of the chiefs, captains and sergeants who are here, as well as the friends and family who have joined us. What a pleasure to be here today. What a privilege to join so many men and women in uniform. Let me add my congratulations to all of the graduates of Class #185 for the North Central Texas Regional Police Academy. Today you leave the classroom. Tomorrow you enter our communities, our neighborhoods and our streets. I thank you for choosing […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Wellesley College Student Commencement Speech - May 31, 1969
May 31, 1969
I am very glad that Miss Adams made it clear that what I am speaking for today is all of us -- the 400 of us -- and I find myself in a familiar position, that of reacting, something that our generation has been doing for quite a while now. We're not in the positions yet of leadership and power, but we do have that indispensable task of criticizing and constructive protest and I find myself reacting just briefly to some of the things that Senator Brooke said. This has […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Baccalaureate Address at University of Wyoming - June 12, 1921
June 12, 1921
Mr. President, the Board of Trustees of the University of Wyoming, and citizens of the State: In the beginning a Baccalaureate address was a sermon, and so, not to depart too far from the form, I have taken a text, and my text is from that wonderful Book of Proverb, Chapter twenty-nine and Verse eighteen -- "Where there is no vision, the people perish." I am going to interpret that text to mean that where the people have no vision, the nation perishes, and if I forget to allude to […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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A Message to Sweet Briar College: The Woman's Century, 1820-1920 - June 9, 1936
June 9, 1936
I bring a message to Sweet Briar College and especially to the Senior class so soon to step beyond its portals into the Great World. It is not a personal message that I bring and I hasten to add that it contains no advice, instruction or warning against threatening bugaboos. My message comes from millions of women now mostly past and gone. They lived in a single century; they endured, struggled, and suffered, almost unbelievably, in order that you, unborn in their day, might inherit privileges, opportunities and liberties for […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Agnes Scott College Commencement - May 14, 2005
May 14, 2005
Thank you so very much. I am delighted to be here this morning. I have such a high regard for this college, its extraordinary record of educating women and its commitment to carry on that legacy into the future. I am so impressed with the enthusiasm and energy that I see on this campus. In fact, the first time I came it took a while to sort through both the memories I had and the records that I could find. And the college was a great help. Because all I […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Commencement - May 21, 2005
May 21, 2005
I want to congratulate my fellow honorees. It's a great personal pleasure to be on the same platform with Robert Conrad and Joe Juneau and Dr. Paul Volcker, three people who exemplify the tradition of excellence and commitment to making a difference. I know that this university has made a difference. The nation's oldest technological university since 1824, the mission of Rensselaer has been to apply science to the common purposes of life. I was never very good in science. I thought for a very short period of time, when […]
Dianne Feinstein
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Commencement Address: USC Law School - May 18, 2003
May 18, 2003
Thank you very much, Dean Spitzer and Jenna (Jenkins) and Rebecca (Furman) for your leadership in the school and what I suspect will be a leadership role in your community in the future. And all you graduates out there: don't make it too difficult to collect that $21,000 for scholarships. This is the first time I've ever seen it done - so I hope it's successful. In preparing these remarks, I tried to keep in mind something that I heard once. Probably, many graduates here today don't know that much […]
Lynn Woolsey
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University of Phoenix Commencement Speech - July 16, 1995
July 16, 1995
University Of Phoenix-San Jose Campus Vice President Barker, Vice President Palmer, Distinguished Faculty, Honored Graduates, Parents, Family, and Friends: It is an honor to be with you today on this very special and important occasion--the commencement celebration of the University of Pheonix. To the Class of 1995: Congratulations! We are so very proud of you, and you can certainly be proud of yourselves! In fact, I think you can be even prouder than the average college graduate, because most of you are working professionals, many with families, who had to […]