For peace is a process — a way of solving problems.
speech graduation patience
John F. Kennedy
American University Commencement 1963, 1963
The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through great periods of social change.
speech graduation justice
Martin Luther King Jr.
Morehouse College Commencement 1959, 1959
Throughout the world, mutual suspicions flourish in ignorance and misunderstanding. They can be dispelled only with knowledge and wisdom.
speech graduation empathy
Dwight Eisenhower
Penn State Commencement 1955, 1955
You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done.
speech graduation courage
Winston Churchill
Harrow School Address 1941, 1941
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
speech graduation philosophy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harvard Divinity School Address 1838, 1838
The ultimate power you have over us is your ability to tell your story. If you can tell that story truthfully, with humor and with a little forgiveness, then you're on your own.
speech graduation authenticity
Garrison Keillor
Commencement Address, 0