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role. And for those of you who are in relationships, your spice (that’s the plural of spouse) your significant other, they’re saying, no, it’s time now for you to able to take care of yourself. No, never do it. In the sense that never be able to take care of yourself - alone. As your Brother Chair of the Board spoke about so beautifully - your responsibility and mine - is always to take care of others. Dr. Martin Luther King once said, "Life’s most persistent question is, what are you doing for others?" The great African-American woman educator Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune said often, and she would say to you graduates today "Go ahead, climb to the top, go ahead with your bad selves." Well, she wouldn’t put it that way, but she would have said, "Go on and climb to the top. But you must remember to lift others as you climb." And my fourth and final counsel to you is this: keep looking in the mirror. Look every day. See yourself, and I trust you are proud of who it is that you see. And then when you look at yourself you see someone whose ego is in check, you see someone capable of listening to critics, you see someone full of integrity. But I also hope that when you look in that mirror you’re prepared to welcome into your eyesight, into your world, those who look so differently from you. Those of different races and ethnicities,...

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Commence and Go Forth - University of Arkansas Commencement Speeches

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