Learn not to listen / Anna Quindlen --
Be in time / Wynton Marsalis --
Hope to be hopeful / Barbara Kingsolver --
To all my children / Marian Wright Edelman --
Who will defend the earth? / Noam Chomsky --
The pursuit of meaningfulness / Toni Morrison --
Go the distance / Gloria Steinem --
The world is waiting for you / Tony Kushner --
Allow hope but also fear / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie --
On empathy and reason / Paul Farmer --
Not for profit / Martha Nussbaum --
Know your history / Oliver Stone --
The earth is hiring / Paul Hawken --
Make this world a better place / Isabel Wilkerson --
Against discouragement / Howard Zinn --
Listen to your mother / Cecile Richards --
Don't wait to change the world / Theodore M. Shaw --
A left-handed commencement address / Ursula K. Le Guin.
