Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa tells the Harvard Class of 2024 they ‘must have the courage’ to ‘create the world as it should be: more compassionate, more equal, more sustainable.’
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/world/us-canada/maria-ressa-commencement-speech-harvard-university-may-2024/
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00:00Our world on fire needs you, welcome to the battlefield.
00:07Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa tells the Harvard Class of 2024
00:12they, quote, must have the courage to create the world as it should be,
00:17more compassionate, more equal, more sustainable.
00:21In her commencement address, she commends the battle-tested graduates
00:24who survived the pandemic and saw on their screens the horrors of war.
00:29We live in a dystopian science fiction world
00:33when you have been forced to turn crisis into opportunity.
00:40Around 30,000 graduates gathered at the entire stretch of the Harvard Yard,
00:44which was the site of a 20-day pro-Palestine encampment.
00:48The campus protests are testing everyone in America.
00:53Protests give voice. They shouldn't be silenced.