The World Is Waiting for You
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"With more than a dozen contemporary graduation speeches that dissect the world as it is and imagine what it could be, [this book] brings forth the courageous people who've dared to transform the podium into a pulpit for championing peace, justice, protest, and a better world"--

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"With more than a dozen contemporary graduation speeches that dissect the world as it is and imagine what it could be, [this book] brings forth the courageous people who've dared to transform the podium into a pulpit for championing peace, justice, protest, and a better world"--
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Tara Grove is the education editor at The New Press. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York City. Isabel Ostrer is a recent graduate of Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They both went to college to figure out how they could make the world a more humane place to live. List of Contributors/Speech Locations Anna Quindlen - Grinnell College, 2011 (Grinnell, Iowa) Wynton Marsalis - Connecticut College, 2001 (New London, Connecticut) Barbara Kingsolver - Duke University, 2008 (Durham, North Carolina) Marian Wright Edelman - Muhlenberg College, 2008 (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Noam Chomsky - American University of Beirut, 2013 (Lebanon) Toni Morrison - Rutgers University, 2011 (New Brunswick, New Jersey) Gloria Steinem - Smith College, 2007 (Northampton, Massachusetts) Tony Kushner - Vassar College, 2002 (Poughkeepsie, New York) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Kalamazoo College, 2009 (Kalamazoo, Michigan) Paul Farmer - University of Delaware, 2013 (Newark, Delaware) Martha Nussbaum - Connecticut College, 2009 (New London, Connecticut) Oliver Stone - UCLA, 2009 (Los Angeles, California) Paul Hawken - University of Portland, 2009 (Portland, Oregon) Isabel Wilkerson - Bates College, 2014 (Lewiston, Maine) Howard Zinn - Spelman College, 2005 (Atlanta, Georgia) Cecile Richards - Barnard College, 2014 (New York, New York) Theodore Shaw - Wesleyan University, 2014 (Middletown, Connecticut) Ursula K. Le Guin - Mills College, 1983 (Oakland, California)