Broder closed by quoting Robert Maynard Hutchins, the former Chancellor of the University of Chicago, whose words Broder had carried in his wallet for years. Hutchins had asked, 'How is the educated man or woman to show the fruits of his education in times like these?' and answered with a definition of the educated person's special responsibility: to defend freedom, resist injustice, and 'assert at whatever cost that any threat to freedom is an effort to repress the human spirit itself.' Broder — who had spent 35 years in journalism, 'a trade which exists only where freedom prevails' — told the graduates they were entering 'a great time to be graduating,' a world 'where the scent of freedom has spread literally from pole to pole.' He urged them to be 'an example, an inspiration and a direct source of assistance to those millions' reaching for freedom around the world.