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some of you may be headed to medical school to become doctors. but make sure you heal folks in underserved communities who really need it, too. for generations, certain groups in this country — especially african americans — have been desperate in need of access to quality, affordable health care. and as a society, we’re finally beginning to change that. those of you who are under the age of 26 already have the option to stay on your parent’s health care plan. but all of you are heading into an economy where many young people expect not only to have multiple jobs, but multiple careers.

so starting october 1st, because of the affordable care act — otherwise known as obamacare — (applause) — you’ll be able to shop for a quality, affordable plan that’s yours and travels with you — a plan that will insure not only your health, but your dreams if you are sick or get in an accident. but we’re going to need some doctors to make sure it works, too. we’ve got to make sure everybody has good health in this country. it’s not just good for you, it’s good for this country. so you’re going to have to spread the word to your fellow young people.

which brings me to a second point: just as morehouse has taught you to expect more of yourselves, inspire those who look up to you to expect more of themselves. we know that too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices. and i have to say, growing up, i made quite a few myself. sometimes i wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. i had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing. but one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is there’s no longer any room for excuses. (applause.)

i understand there’s a common fraternity creed here at morehouse: “excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness.” well, we’ve got no time for excuses. not because the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation have vanished entirely; they have not. not because racism and discrimination no longer exist; we know those are still out there. it’s just that in today’s hyperconnected, hypercompetitive world, with millions of young people from china and india and brazil — many of whom started with a whole lot less than all of you did — all of them entering the global workforce alongside you, nobody is going to give you anything that you have not earned. (applause.)

nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination. and moreover, you have to remember that whatever you’ve gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured — and they overcame them. and if they overcame them, you can overcome them, too. (applause.)

you now hail from a lineage and legacy of immeasurably strong men — men who bore tremendous burdens and still laid the stones for the path on which we now walk. you wear the mantle of frederick douglass and booker t. washington, and ralph bunche and langston hughes, and george washington carver and ralph abernathy and thurgood marshall, and, yes, dr. martin luther king, jr. these men were many things to many people. and they knew full well the role that racism played in their lives. but when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses.

every one of you have a grandma or an uncle or a parent who’s told you that at some point in life, as an african american, you have to work twice as hard as anyone else if you want to get by. i think president mays put it even better: he said, “whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead, and no man yet to be born can do it any better.” (applause.)

and i promise you, what was needed in dr. mays’s time, that spirit of excellence, and hard work, and dedication, and no excuses is needed now more than ever. if you think you can just get over in this economy just because you have a morehouse degree, you’re in for a rude awakening. but if you stay hungry, if you keep hustling, if you keep on your grind and get other folks to do the same — nobody can stop you. (applause.)

and when i talk about pursuing excellence and setting an example, i’m not just talking about in your professional life. one of today’s graduates, frederick anderson — where’s frederick? frederick, right here. (applause.) i know it’s raining, but i’m going to tell about frederick. frederick started his college career in ohio, only to find out that his high school sweetheart back in georgia was pregnant. so he came back and enrolled in morehouse to be closer to her. pretty soon, helping raise a newborn and working night shifts became too much, so he started taking business classes at a technical college instead — doing everything from delivering newspapers to buffing hospital floors to support his family.

and then he enrolled at morehouse a second time. but even with a job, he couldn’t keep up with the cost of tuition. so after getting his degree from that technical school, this father of three decided to come back to morehouse for a third time. (applause.) as frederick says, “god has a plan for my life, and he’s not done with me yet.”

and today, frederick is a family man, and a working man, and a morehouse man. (applause.) and that’s what i’m asking all of you to do: keep setting an example for what it means to be a man. (applause.) be the best husband to your wife, or you’re your boyfriend, or your partner. be the best father you can be to your children. because nothing is more important.

i was raised by a heroic single mom, wonderful grandparents — made incredible sacrifices for me. and i know there are moms and grandparents here today who did the same thing for all of you. but i sure wish i had had a father who was not only present, but involved.…… 此处隐藏：8573字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……