John Legend Commencement Speech
Praises "Politics Of Empathy," Condemns Falsehoods That Led To War, Financial Crisis
When you look at the list of crises we face, there is a common thread that ties many of them together.
The people who created these crises or allowed them to happen either didn't look hard enough for the truth, or didn't listen to those voices that could tell them where the truth lived.
We lost thousands of lives and spent billions (possibly trillions) of dollars fighting in and rebuilding Iraq, all based on the false premise that there ...
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But so what else is new? I'm sure opponents of the Peloponnesian (am I spelling that right?) wars, the tulip mania, etc. etc. down through time could make the same points.