That fairness that my parents and I take for granted, that many Americans take for granted, is in many ways resting on your shoulders to uphold. You represent those who will make laws and effect change.
Mindy Kaling
Harvard Law School Class Day 2014, 2014
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Actress, comedian, and writer Mindy Kaling delivered a hilarious Class Day address at Harvard Law School in 2014, bringing the house down with jokes about asparagus on the school crest, the Harvard-Yale rivalry, and her running gag about Professor Noah Feldman. But midway through the laughter, she pivoted to a genuinely moving moment about her parents' immigrant journey. Kaling described her family — Indian parents who were raised in India, met in Africa, and moved to America — and how their dream of a future 'unfettered by limitations, dependent only on what you know' was possible only in this country. She called their romance with America 'more romantic than any romantic comedy I could ever write.' Then she turned to the graduates and reminded them that the fairness her family believed in was now in their hands to protect and strengthen.
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