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Thomas K. Friedman

journalist and author

May 30, 2009

"Whatever uncompromising idealism that was formed in you by a professor you admired, whatever unbending convictions about what is right and wrong, black and white, which you stuck to in student government debates, even when your cause seemed lost, whatever principled behavior you demanded from the administration here, or from fellow students supporting the same cause, whatever you do, do not leave it here. There is nothing our country needs more right now."