【正文】 prisoned by circumstances of poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and , dare to pete, yes, but maybe even more difficult, dare to to care about people who need our help to succeed and fulfill their own are so many out there and sometimes all it takes is the simplest of gestures or helping hands and many of you understand that know that the numbers of graduates in the last 20 years have worked in munity organizations, have tutored, have mitted themselves to religious have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that it was the right thing to do and because it gave something back to have dared to , dare to care to fight for equal justice for all, for equal pay for women, against hate crimes and to care about public schools without qualified teachers or adequate to care about protecting our to care about the 10 million children in our country who lack health to care about the one and a half million children who have a parent in seven million people who suffer from HIV/ thank you for caring enough to demand that our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world with HIV/AIDS, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even I’ll also add, dare enough to care about our political know, as I go and speak with students I’m impressed so much, not only in formal settings, on campuses, but with my daughter and her friends, about how much you care, about how willing you are to volunteer and may have missed the last wave of the revolution, but you’ve understood that the revolution is there for you every single you’ve been willing to be part of remarking lives in our yet, there is a real resistance, a turning away from the political hope that some of you will be public servants and will even run for office yourself, not to win a position to make and impression on your friends at your 20th reunion, but because you understand how important it is for each of us as citizens to make a mitment to our generation, the first one born after the social upheavals of the 60’s and 70’s, in the midst of the technological advances of the 80’s and 90’s, are inheriting an economy, a society and a government that has yet to understand fully, or even e to grips with, our rapidly changing so bring your values and experiences and insights into to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different have called you the generation of ’ve been raised with multiple choice tests, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple ’ve grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior ’ve been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, to make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought I think as I look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not only freedom, but personal social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive story: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides, drunk driving deaths being service and religious involvement being if you look at the area of voting among 18 to 29 year olds, the numbers tell a far more troubling of you I know believe that service and munity volunteerism is a better way of solving the issues facing our country than political engagement, because you believechoose one of the following multiples or choose them allgovernment either can’t understand or won’t make the right choices because of political pressures, inefficiency, inpetence or big money , I admit there is enough truth in that critique to justify feeling disconnected and at bottom, that’s a personal copout and a national conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity and responsibility as well as and the Peace Corps exist because of political air, water, land and food will be clean and safe because of political ability to cure disease or log onto the Internet have been advanced because of politically determined cleansing in Kosovo ended because of political parents and grandparents traveled here by means of government built and subsidized transportation used GI Bills or government loans, as I did, to attend , I could, as you might guess, go on and on, but the point is to remind us all that government is us and each generation has to stake its , as stakeholders, you will have to decide whether or not to make the choice to is hard and it is, bringing change in a democracy, particularly ’s so much about our modern times that conspire to lower our sights, to weaken our visionas individuals and munities and even is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about。rather it’s a silent conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious as many have said before and as Vaclav Havel has said to memorably, “It cannot suffice just to invent new machines, new regulations and new is necessary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this Earth and of our deeds.” And I think we are called on to reject, in this time of blessings that we enjoy, those who will tear us apart and tear us down and instead to liberate our Godgiven spirit, by being willing to dare to dream of a better my campaign, when times were tough and days were long I used to think about the example of Harriet Tubman, a heroic New Yorker, a 19th century Moses, who risked her life to bring hundreds of slaves to would say to those who she gathered up in the South where she kept going back year after year from the safety of Auburn, New York, that no matter what happens, they had to keep they heard shouts behind them, they had to keep they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep going to , those aren’t the risks we is more the silence and apathy and indifference that dogs our years ago, I spoke at my own graduation from Wellesley, where I did call on my fellow classmates to reject the