【正文】 t back to me and said，“，it seems we have a problem.”That’s right，my credit card was thirty more minutes of haggling，I finally made it to the convention，only to learn that I was thought of so highly by the Democratic Party that my credentials barely granted me access to the men’s roomlet alone backstage where all the action so，being the VIP that I was，I spent the rest of the week as the guy in the room who nobody knew，but everyone knew didn’t to say，when they asked me to be the convention’s keynote speaker just four years later，I made sure I was getting a joking aside，receiving that honor was a wele changeand，as MasterCard could attest，more than a little of course，America is an unlikely placea country built on defiance of the odds；on a belief in the I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement，it’s now your turn to help keep it this ’s your turn to keep this daringly radical but unfailingly simple notion of America alivethose who doubt that things are better today than they were them I say take a look at this class of than half of you represent the very first member of your family to ever attend the most diverse university in all of New England，I look out at a sea of faces that are AfricanAmericanandHispanicAmerican and AsianAmerican and see students that have e here from over 100 different countries，believing like those first settlers that they too could find a home in this City on a Hilland the world took today，just a few years into the twentyfirst century，we already find ourselves in a different and precarious revolutions in munications and technology have broken down barriers across the world，it has given more power to both our petitors and our longer can we assume that a highschool education in Boston is enough to pete for a job that could easily go to a collegeeducated student in Bangalore or more can we count on employers to provide health care and pensions and job training when their bottomlines know no again can we expect the oceans that surround America to keep us safe from attacks on our own what does this mean for you？What role will you play in meeting these challenges ？I do not pretend to have the of you will have to discover your perhaps I can offer a few suggestions that may be useful along the ，take I was on the brink of graduating from college，I had this crazy idea that I wanted to be a munity organizer and work in lowine mother and grandparents thought I should go to law school，and my friends were all busy applying for jobs on Wall I went ahead and wrote letters to every organization in the country that I thought was working to empower lowine finally，this small group of churches on the south side of Chicago wrote back and offered me a job helping them deal with the consequences of steel plants that had closed and put thousands out of churches didn’t have much moneyso they offered me a grand sum of $12，000 a year plus $2，000 to buy a I bought a beat up old car，packed up my belongings，got out a map，and started driving west to Chicagoforget this munity organizing can’t change the world，and people won’t appreciate you you should do is go into television ’m telling you，you’ve got a future.”I could’ve taken my mother’s advice and I could’ve taken my grandparents could’ve taken the path my friends I could’ve taken the words of wisdom from that old man in ，objectively speaking，I’m sure he was I knew there was something in me that wanted to try for something don’t let people talk you into doing the safe to what’s in you and decide what it is that you care so much about that you’re willing to take a second piece of advice is to stay the world continues to change and we bee more connected to each other，globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our either way，it’s here，and it’s not going can try to build walls around us，and we can look inward，and we can respond by being frightened and angry about those that’s not what we’re are a confident country，not a fearful can meet these that means every single one of us needs to learn more so we can pete means we need an energy policy that will create new jobs in this country and end our dependence on oil from the Middle it means we need to update our social contract to make sure that people have health care and pensions and training no matter where they work or how many times they switch it doesn’t mean we should ever are better than third piece of advice is to cultivate a sense of empathyto put yourself in other people’s shoesthe easiest thing in the world is to do nothing at turn off the TV，put down the paper，and walk away from the stories about Iraq or Darfur or poverty or iolence or joblessness or go about your busy lives，wishing these problems away but expecting someone else to do remain detached；to remain indifferent；to remain I hope you don’t do what’s hope you do what’s often imagine the young Americansteenagers and college kids not much older than youfrom all over the country，watching the Civil RightsMovement unfold before them on their television imagine that they would’ve seen the marchers and heard the speeches，but they also probably saw the dogs and the fire hoses，or the footage of innocent people being beaten within an inch of their lives，or maybe they would’ve heard the news the day those four little girls died when someone threw a bomb into their ，they knew that it was safer and smarter to stay at home； to watch the movement from somewhere in their hearts，they also understood that these people in Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi were their brothers and sisters；that what was happening was wrong；and that they had an obligation to make it so when the buses pulled up for a Freedom Ride down South，they got they of they changed the need you to do the Robert once told a crowd of South Africans no older than you，“The world demands the qualities of youth；not a time of life but a stat