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Get Schooled: Obama at Morehouse: Use your power for a purpose

Here are some passages from President Barack Obama’s commencement address today at Morehouse College.  Link here  for the full speech, which is worth sharing with your students and your children:

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Speaking today at the Morehouse commencement, President Obama told graduates that a "unique sense of purpose" has always infused the historic campus.

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By Maureen Downey

Here are some passages from President Barack Obama’s commencement address today at Morehouse College. Link here  for the full speech, which is worth sharing with your students and your children:

Excerpts of Obama's address:

I see some good looking hats on the moms and grandmas here today. Which is appropriate, since we’re here on Sunday, and folks are in their Sunday best. Congratulations to all of you – the parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters, family and friends who supported these young men in so many ways. This is your day, too. Just think about it – your sons and brothers have spent the last four years far from home and close to Spelman. And they still made it here