It meant more to our father to see us deal with a setback and try to bounce back than to watch how we handled our successes. 'Show what you are made of,' he would say.
Jill Abramson
Wake Forest University Commencement 2014, 2014
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Abramson delivered this speech just days after being fired as executive editor of The New York Times — one of the most prominent dismissals in American journalism. She opened with a phone call from her sister: 'I know Dad would be as proud of you today as he was the day you became executive editor.' Their father believed that character is revealed not in triumph but in how you handle defeat. The timing made this one of the most dramatic commencement speeches in recent memory. Rather than avoiding the elephant in the room, Abramson leaned into it, using her own fresh wound as a lesson in resilience. The speech transformed what could have been a humiliating public moment into a powerful demonstration of the very quality she was advocating.
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