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Every individual has the tools
Potential and reach to build a better world
That makes this the best time in history to be alive
Whatever you choose to do with your life
Wherever your passion takes you
I urge you to take the power
You have been given and use it for good
I spirred to leave this world better than you found it
I didn't always see life as clearly as i do today
But i've learned the greatest challenge of life is knowing win to break with conventional wisdom
Don't just accept the world
You inherit today
Don't just accept the status
Quote
No
The challenge has ever been solved
And no lasting improvement has ever been achieved
Unless people dares to try something different
Dare to think different
I was lucky to learn from someone who believed this deeply someone who knew that changing the world starts with following a vision not a path
He was my friend and mentor steve jobs
Steve's vision was the great ideas comes from a restless refusal to accept things as they are
And those principes still guide us at apple today
We reject the notion that global warming is ineinevitable
That's why we run apple on one hundred percent renewable energy
We thank you
We reject the excuse that getting the most that of technology means trading away your right to privacy
So we choose a different path collecting as little of your datas possible being thoughtful and respectful
When it's in our care
Because we know it belongs to you in every way at every turn the question
We ask ourselves is not what can we do
But what should we do
Because steve taught us
That's how change happens and from him
I learned to never be content with the way that things are
I believe this mindset comes naturally to young people and you should never let go of this restlessness
So today's ceremony isn't just prespresenyou with a degree
It's about presenting you with a question
How will you challenge the status quo
How will you push the world forward
Fifty years ago
Today mate thirteen
Nineteen
Nineteen sixty ty
Robert kennedy was campaigning in nebraskka
And spoke a grourouof students who were wrestling with that same question
Those were trouble times too the us was at war in vietomam
There was violent unrest in american cities
And the country was still reeling from the assassination of doctor martin
Lutha king a month earlier
Kennedy gave the students a call the action
When you look across this country
And when you see people's lives how back by discrimination and poverty
When you see injustice and inequality
He said
You should be the last people to accept things
As they are let kenney's words echo here today you should be the last people to accept it
Whatever path youve chosen the et medicine or business engineering of humanities
Whatever drives your passion be the last to accept the notion
That the world you and heric cannot be improved be the last to accept the excuse that says that's just how things you're done here do graduates you should be the last people to accept it
And you should be the first to change it
The worldless education you receive that you works so hard for gives you opportunities that few people have you are uniquely qualified and therefore uniquely responsible to build a better way forward
That won't be easy
It will require great courage
But that courage will not only help you live your life to the fullest
It will empower you to transform the lives of others
Last month i was in birmingham to mark the fifty of the anniversary of doctor ing's assassination
And i had the incredible privilege of spending time with women and men who marged and worked alongside him many of them were younger at the time than you are
Now they told me
When they defied their parents and ined ined the citiens and the boycotts
When they faced the police dogs in the firehoses they were risking everything
They had becoming footsoldiers for justice without a second thought
Because they knew that change had to come
Because they believe so deeply in the cause of justice
Because they knew even all the adversity that they had face
They had the chance to build something better for the next generation
We can all learn from their example
If you hope to change the world
You must find your fearlessness now if you're anything like i was on graduation day
Maybe you're not feeling so fearless
Maybe you're thinking about the job
You hope to be at
Or wonder where you're going to live or how to repay that student alone
These i know are real concerns
I had them too
But don't let those worry stop you for making a difference
Fearlessness means taking the first step
Even if you don't know where it will take you
It means being driven by a higher purpose rather than by applause
It means knowing that you review your character
When you stand apart
More than when you stand with the crowd
If you step up without fear failure
If you talk and listen to each other without fear of rejection
If you act with decency and kindness
Even when no one is looking
Even if it seems small or in consequential trust me
The rest will fall into place
Place more importantly you'll be able to tackle the big things when they come your way
It's in those truly trying moments
That the fearless inspires
Fearless like the students of parklin
Florida who refused to be silent about the epidemic of gun violence and have rallied millions to their cause
Fearless like the women who say me too and times up
Women who cast light in the dark places and move us to a more just an equal future
Fearless like those who fight for the rights of immigrants
Who understand that our only hopeful future is one that embraces all who want to contribute duke graduates be fearleless be the last people to accept things as they are
And the first people to stand up and change them for the better in one hundred and sixty four
Martin
Luther
King
Junior gave a speech at page auditorium to an overflow crowd students who couldn't get a see
Listen from outside on the lawn dctor king warwarthem that someday day would all all have to attone
Not only for the works and actions of the bad people
But for the appalling silence and in difference of the good people
Who sit around and say wait on time
Martin
Lucer
King stood right here at duke
And said the time is always right to do
Right for you graduate
That time is now
It will always be now
It's time to add your brick to the path of progress
It's time for all of us to move forward
And it's time for you to lead the way
Thank you and congratulations class of two thousand and eighteen
