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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFirst Lady in New Orleans today - tells Dillard grads to stay hungry for learning
Last edited Sat May 10, 2014, 11:52 PM - Edit history (4)
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First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address to graduates of Dillard University in New Orleans today pic.twitter.com/C0sAcgK58q
Jonathan Bachman -AP Photo
excerpts of the First Lady's speech to graduates from Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune
First Lady:
"Today I stand before a sea of young geniuses. Oh, yeah. So graduates I hope that you understand this day is not just the culmination of your own dreams but the realization of the dreams of many who came before you."
"Mother volunteered at her school and was there every day. "Id walk by the office, thered she be." Embarrassing at the time, "but looking back, I have no doubt that my classmates and I got a better education because she was there looking over their shoulder."
"No dream is too big, no vision is too bold. As long as we stay hungry for education and let that hunger be our north star, there is nothing, nothing we cannot achieve . . . Maybe you could run for school board or Congress or even yes President of the United States I cannot wait to see the world that your children will be born into."
Jonathan Bachman -AP Photo
from CHEVEL JOHNSON, Associated Press:
"This is the realization of the dreams of so many who came before you," she said. "You should be so proud and so happy and so excited, but you shouldn't be satisfied. Ask yourselves, 'What about all those geniuses who'll never get this chance?' ... When people fall behind in school, they fall behind in life."
She pointed the more than 200 Nigerian girls who were recently kidnapped "for wanting an education and wanting to go to school," and 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl who survived a gunshot to the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 for advocating education for girls . . .
"We got here today because of so many people who toiled and sweat and bled and died for us ... people who never dreamed of getting a college education for themselves but who worked and saved and sacrificed so that we could be here today. We owe them. We owe them. And the only way to pay back that debt is by making those same kinds of sacrifices and investments for the next generation."
Jonathan Bachman -AP Photo
audio of speech: http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2014/05/listen_first_lady_michelle_oba.html#incart_river
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First Lady in New Orleans today - tells Dillard grads to stay hungry for learning (Original Post)
bigtree
May 2014
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. That's just serving a softball to Faux Nooze
Imagine the fun they'll have spinning this!
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)2. I'm appalled that she didn't bring up human trafficking!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)3. Oh, the the hypocrisy!1!!
bigtree
(85,919 posts)4. selfie game x 1000
Half Angel/Human @_JayEmAye
This chick just rose her selfie game x 1000. She took a selfie with Michelle Obama 😎
N.T. @NIKKI_T
This was First Lady's first ever selfie at a commencement.... #wemadeit #dillardgrad14 #mydu
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)11. each of the photos were great...thanks for sharing
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)6. And before FOX
comes in to try and spin this, "staying hungry" is basically slang for working hard towards what one wants in life.
Cha
(295,929 posts)7. mahalo bigtree~
bigtree
(85,919 posts)8. my pleasure, Cha
Cha
(295,929 posts)9. Just beautiful on so many levels..
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)10. in light of student loan debt--the GOP is on notice
the connection between hunger and debt runs deep