Matt Damon gave a highly charged MIT commencement speech [View all]

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http://www.boston.com/culture/education/2016/06/03/matt-damon-commencement-speech

Matt Damon had an important message to share with MIT graduates: “There is more at stake today than in every story that has ever been told.”

Damon was equal parts fiery and inspiring while addressing students at MIT’s 2016 commencement ceremony Friday morning. He spent sections of his speech lambasting bankers and Donald Trump, touting Elizabeth Warren, and urging students to take the issues of income inequality and global warming seriously.

“Let me say this to the bankers — specifically the ones that brought you the biggest heist in history,” Damon said to the assembled crowd of around 13,000 recent graduates, parents, and alumni that filled Killian Court. “It was theft, and you knew it. It was fraud, and you knew it. And you know what else? We know that you knew it.”

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