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.
