I am very grateful to all of you at Colorado College for inviting me to participate in your graduation ceremony. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the College for granting me this honorary doctoral degree. For all of you who are graduating, this is a day of celebration.
Today marks the end of many years of hard work.
Many of you will now become a part of the cultural and economic forces that thrive in this great country. Others will seek further knowledge through pursuit of graduate studies. All of you, I hope, will generously repay society for the privilege of a higher education. Those who obtain academic training and a college degree, whether here or in any other academic institution, acquire a special responsibility. Those of us who have a college education have developed the ability to examine the world with a critical eye, and discover the nature and sources of the injustice that still prevails throughout our planet.