When I was five or six years old, I remember watching TV and I would see these commercials... 'you can give 25 cents, save a child's life.' And I would think to myself, I wonder how many 25 cents I could save up to save all the kids in Africa. And I would say to myself, 'when I grow up, when I can get rich, I'mma save kids all over the world.'
speech graduation empathy
Rihanna
Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award 2017, 2017
You don't have to be rich to be a humanitarian. You don't have to be rich to help somebody. You don't gotta be famous. You don't even have to be college-educated.
speech graduation humility
Rihanna
Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award 2017, 2017
It starts with your neighbor, the person right next to you, the person sitting next to you in class, the kid down the block in your neighborhood. You just do whatever you can to help in any way that you can.
speech graduation empathy
Rihanna
Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award 2017, 2017
My grandmother always used to say, if you've got a dollar, there's plenty to share.
speech graduation empathy
Rihanna
Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award 2017, 2017