Sarah Abushaar

Whereas children here had ghosts and the boogeyman, our equivalents were our governments.

In bringing the president to me, in having me speak to and question a shaper of history and experience the value he saw in my view, Harvard would make me feel I too could be him. I too had the power to shape history and not just be passively shaped by it.

Revolutions not in arms but in minds — more powerful and permanent and pervasive.