在第一个完整的十年里,在洋基体育场举行的所有大学的毕业典礼吸引了各种大牌的演讲者,包括国家元首、娱乐明星和民权英雄。在我们告别2010年代之际,我们有机会重温这些荣誉学位获得者与我们过去10个毕业班分享的智慧。
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2010年:亚历克·鲍德温
男演员,Tisch校友(94年)
Myth of a risk free life is just that—myth.”
2011:比尔·克林顿
美国第42任总统
I wish you well. I think it can be the most interesting time in human history—an age of prosperity and peace and discovery, but only if it is an age of genuine community and sharing.”
2012:索尼娅•索托马约尔
美国最高法院法官
To squeeze from life its fullness, to be happy in this world in the short period of time we are given, to find meaning in life, you have to be actively giving members of your communities. Neither your life nor the world you live in just happens. You control the quality of your lives and your communities. It is only in giving to others that you can find meaning and satisfaction in what you do.”
2013:大卫博伊斯
霍林斯沃斯诉佩里一案的律师和首席联合律师
No civil rights struggle proceeds in a straight line. There are reverses, and there have been many reverses in this civil rights struggle already. But fundamentally we are right. Everyone is entitled to equal protection, and we have as a society only succeeded in ignoring that because we have been able to characterize people—women, African Americans, people of different religions, and people of different sexual orientations—as different. They are not. We know it, they know it, and someday the United States Supreme Court will recognize it.”
2014:叶伦
第一位担任美国联邦储备系统
理事会主席的女性
“You won’t succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig and DiMaggio failed most of the time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.”
2015:Sherrilyn Ifill
全国有色人种协进会法律辩护和教育基金主席兼顾问
“I encourage your discomfort, that you must contribute, that you must make your voice heard. That is the essence of good citizenship, that bone-deep sense of obligation that you must work to improve our democracy, and to improve it especially for those who are most marginalized and most in need.”
2016:达伦•沃克
福特基金会主席
“As graduates of this extraordinary institution, you have enormous privilege. With that privilege comes a responsibility—to not just stand out, but to stand for something, whether you are writing a legal opinion, or editing a genome, or running for office, or literally doing stand up. Stand for something.”
2017:Pharrell威廉姆斯
音乐家、作曲家和制作人
Your generation is unraveling deeply entrenched laws, principles, and misguided values that have held women back for far too long and, therefore, have held us all back. Imagine the possibilities when women are not held back. The world that you will live in that will be a lot better. This is the first generation that navigates with the security and confidence to treat women as equals.”
2018:贾斯汀特鲁多
加拿大总理
In every generation leaders emerge because they one day awake to the realization that it’s not up to someone else to fix this problem or take up that cause—it’s up to them. So now is the time for you to lead.”
2019:伊丽莎白亚历山大
安德鲁·梅隆基金会主席
I believe that you can create this world where none is lonely, none hunted, none alien. I believe that you can create a world where all people have community and safety. Where we can all belong and be known.”
新闻旨在传播有益信息,英文原版地址:https://www.nyu.edu/content/nyu/en/about/news-publications/news/2019/december/nyu-commencement-speakers-of-the-past-decade.html