Hillary Clinton to address Wellesley College graduates

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Hillary Clinton is returning to her alma mater, Wellesley College, to deliver this year's commencement address at the Massachusetts school.

Clinton this month announced the creation of "Onward Together," an adaptation of her campaign theme, "Stronger Together." The group, she tweeted, will "encourage people to get involved, organize, and even run for office."

The speech also will be a return engagement of sorts for Clinton.

She delivered the student commencement address 48 years ago in 1969, the year she graduated from the all-women's school.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/hillary-clinton-address-wellesley-college-graduates-47654379

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Lucky grads!

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1. k&r

...thanks for posting, PunkinPi

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2. You're welcome, bigtree!

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3. Should be an immense honor for the Grads to get a chance to hear Hillary speak. nt

[riversedge]

4. Photo of Wellesley College campus....

Hillary Clinton To Deliver Commencement Speech At Wellesley College


http://www.npr.org/2017/05/26/530179298/hillary-clinton-to-deliver-commencement-speech-at-wellesley-college



May 26, 20178:58 AM ET





http://www.npr.org/2017/05/26/530179298/hillary-clinton-to-deliver-commencement-speech-at-wellesley-college
The Wellesley College campus.
Courtesy Wellesley College........................

On Friday, she addresses the graduating class of her alma mater, Wellesley College. It's a familiar stage for her — Clinton delivered the commencement address as a College Government president in 1969.



The young activist was the first student to address the graduating class and she used that speech to lean into politics of the day. She challenged Sen. Edward Brooke, who spoke at the same event. He celebrated incremental progress and argued against protest, as NPR's Tamara Keith reported. When it was Clinton's turn, she ad-libbed a response to Brooke, declaring that empathy was not enough in politics.

"Part of the problem with just empathy with professed goals is that empathy doesn't do us anything," she said. "We've had lots of empathy; we've had lots of sympathy, but we feel that for too long our leaders have viewed politics as the art of the possible."

"The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible," she continued.

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5. Thanks for the additional info, riversedge. nt

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6. Montana ND

Hillary nailed it.

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7. Welcome to DU. n/t

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8. Watch. It was beautiful.

[PunkinPi]

9. Thanks for including the video -- and it was beautiful!!! nt