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

Book 2015

""The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them," acclaimed author and award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen cautioned graduates of Grinnell College. Jazz virtuoso and educator Wynton Marsalis advised new Connecticut College alums not to worry about being on time, but rather to be in time--because "time is actually your friend. He don't come back because he never goes away." And in 2012 renowned physician and humanitarian Paul F...

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ISBN:

9781620970904

Description:

208 pages ; 20 cm

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

LCCN:

2014043177

Control Number:

1207800

Other Authors:

Grove, Tara, editor
Ostrer, Isabel, editor

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