When we are cold, we get warmer by moving. Let's warm this city and the nation with the kind of love and the kind of hope that we can call Stanford hope. Let us not be candles in the wind but forest fires of love and hope. When you get, give. And for me, I shall not be moved.
Students are here tonight to honor a man who is a symbol of better education and justice for all.
We students know this superintendent. He visited our schools regularly, rarely sitting in his office day in and day out but always planning, always loving and always teaching. John Stanford is a human being that will never die. He will live on in our hearts and in our work to build education with justice for all. Family and friends, we are all come to lift up our eyes and give birth to our brother's dream.