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Hello GW.Thank you very much President Knapp for that kind intro.Alex, trustees, faculty and deans of theuniversity, my fellow honorees, and especially you the cla of 2015.Yes.Congratulations to you, to your family, to your friends that are attending today’s ceremony.Youmade it.It’s a privilege, a rare privilege of a lifetime to be with you today.And I think thank youenough for making me an honorary Colonial.Before I begin today, they asked me to make a standard announcement.You’ve heard this silencing your phones.Those of you with an iPhone, just place it in silent mode.If you don’thave an iPhone, please pa it to the center aisle.Apple has a worldcla recycling program.You know, this is really an amazing place.And for a lot of you, I’m sure that being here inWashington, the very center of our democracy, was a big draw when you were choosing whichschool to go to.This place has a powerful pull.It was here that Dr.Martin Luther King challengedAmericans to make real the
promises of democracy, to make justice a reality for all of God’schildren.And it was here that President Ronald Reagan called on us to believe in ourselves and to believe inour capacity to perform great deeds.I’d like to start this morning by telling you about my first visithere.In the summer of 1977 yes, I’m a little old I was 16 years old and living in Robertsdale, thesmall town in southern Alabama that I grew up in.At the end of my junior year of high school I’dwon an eay contest sponsored by the National Rural Electric Aociation.I can’t remember whatthe eay was about, what I do remember very clearly is writing it by hand, draft after draft afterdraft.Typewriters were very expensive and my family could not afford one.I was one of two kids from Baldwin County that was chosen to go to Washington along withhundreds of other
kids acro the country.Before we left, the Alabama delegation took a trip toour state capitol in Montgomery for a meeting with the governor.The governor’s name wasGeorge C.Wallace.The same George Wallace who in 1963 stood in the schoolhouse door at theUniversity of Alabama to block African Americans from enrolling.Wallace embraced the evils ofsegregation.He pitted whites against blacks, the South against the North, the working cla againstthe socalled elites.Meeting my governor was not an honor for me.My heroes in life were Dr.Martin Luther King, and Robert F.Kennedy, who had fought against thevery things that Wallace stood for.Keep in mind, that I grew up, or, when I grew up, I grew up ina place where King and Kennedy were not exactly held in high esteem.When I was a kid, theSouth was still coming to grips
with its history.My textbooks even said the Civil War was aboutstates’ rights.They barely mentioned slavery.So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true.It was a search.It was a proce.It drewon the moral sense that I’d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and ledme on my own journey of discovery.I found books in the public library that they probably didn’tknow they had.They all pointed to the fact that Wallace was wrong.That injustices likesegregation had no place in our world.That equality is a right.As I said, I was only 16 when I met Governor Wallace, so I shook his hand as we were expected todo.But shaking his hand felt like a betrayal of my own beliefs.It felt wrong.Like I was selling a pieceof my soul.123全文查看