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perspectives that cross disciplines and schools of thought. You have learned to live with and learn from people who hold different views than your own, who e from very different backgrounds and have had different experiences. You have wrestled with plex ideas and brought to bear the tools of reason, evidence, principle, and debate. Quidditch players and lacrosse players。 HopHackers and AllNighters。 members of the Society of Physics Students, Baila!, and Blue Jay Bhangra—no matter what group you affiliate with, you have all found your place here, in Baltimore and at Hopkins, and each of you—and all of you as a collective—has in your own way, made this place better. So today, I am calling on you. To use all that you have learned here to recognize and confront your own biases and to help others do the same. To champion the idea—it39。s a simple one, but a pelling one—of the equal worth and dignity of all human beings. To create and support institutions that share your values, and to challenge those leaders who do not. And indeed when they do not, vote. Please vote. Vote them out. You must vote. Be the kind of leaders and institutionbuilders who will identify the mental fences that hold us back from extending opportunity to people who seek only the fair chance to build lives of decency and meaning. Be among those—like your mencement speaker today—who are determined, mitted, resolute about tearing those fences down. I—indeed, we—are counting on you. In whatever way you heed this call, you will vindicate the work of those generations who built the civic, educational, and political institutions that have shaped good, sound, flourishing liberal democracies like the one we have in this country and have allowed us all to thrive and excel. And you will, with your words and deeds, imagine and construct even better ones. Of that I am very sure. Class of 2018, we are so very, very proud of you. Godspeed, and congratulations.