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Commencement Speeches

Ever since 1987, The Humanity Initiative has been intent on preserving the wisdom, inspiration, humor and raw humanity of the most empowering commencement speeches. So please enjoy adventuring into our archive, no matter how old you are, for most of us "graduate" into new tomorrows, new challenges every year -- and the messages of these 27 speeches are indeed timeless.

Commencement Speeches

Truth and Indifference

Tom Hanks
Commencement Speeches

You Are On Your Own Now

Taylor Swift
Commencement Speeches

What Must Be Done?

George C. Marshall
Commencement Speeches

What We Wish to Become

Professor E. O. Wilson of Harvard University - and the world of ants...
Commencement Speeches

Becoming Kinder

George Saunders, writer and professor
Commencement Speeches

Failure and Imagination

J.K.Rowling
Commencement Speeches

The Effect You Have On Others

Jim Carrey
Commencement Speeches

Nine Life Lessons

Tim Minchin -- Australian writer, performer, composer, film maker and teacher.
Commencement Speeches

Our Eternal Resilience

William Allen White
Commencement Speeches

We All Breathe the Same Air

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Commencement Speeches

Be True to Yourself

Michelle Obama
Commencement Speeches

The Earth is Hiring

Paul Hawken
Commencement Speeches

The Joys and Necessity of Bringing Diverse People Together

Ms. Gloria Steinem
Commencement Speeches

Make Good Art

Neil Gaiman, award-winning author and graphic novelist.
Commencement Speeches

Compassionate World Citizenship

Dr. Martha C. Nussbaum
Commencement Speeches

The Imitator Dooms Himself with Hopeless Mediocrity

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commencement Speeches

Life is meaningless and absurd

Alan Alda
Commencement Speeches

A Left-handed Commencement Address

Ursula K LeGuin
Commencement Speeches

Be Your Own Story

Toni Morrison
Commencement Speeches

Ten Ways to Avoid Mucking Up the World Any Worse Than It Already Is.

Russell Baker (1925 - 2019)
Commencement Speeches

Find What You Love

Steve Jobs
Commencement Speeches

On Learning to Talk

William Howard Gass
Commencement Speeches

Radical Renewal of Human Responsibility

Vaclav Havel
Commencement Speeches

Real Freedom?

David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008, American author and professor
Commencement Speeches

Analyzing the problem

Wendell Berry
Commencement Speeches

Introduction to our commencement archive and top ten speeches.

26 commencement speakers
Commencement Speeches

A Better Truth

Meg Greenfield
Commencement Speeches

Be the Truth

Oprah Winfrey
Commencement Speeches

That's Not a Cause. That's an Emergency.

Bono, Irish singer and activist
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