Kwame Anthony Appiah在普林斯顿大学2023年毕业典礼上的演讲
My brilliantly promising Princetonians, pay attention. I can promise you this: pay attention, and attention will pay you back.
My brilliantly promising Princetonians, pay attention. I can promise you this: pay attention, and attention will pay you back.
When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
Please, class of 2023, make every day a good one. Make every day and everything you do. Be good. We need you as a nation to remember the mandate of this university: Princeton in the nation’s service and in the service of humanity.
In this moment, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack.