U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley: 2021 Boston University Commencement Speaker

US Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) (Hon.’21), delivers the undergraduate commencement address to the Class of 2021 at Boston University's 148th Commencement, Sunday, May 16, 2021. Early in her stirring speech at the undergraduate ceremony, she quoted James Baldwin: “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”

“Baldwin was right. He is right,” Pressley, who had studied at BU for a year, told the Class of 2021 bachelor’s degree recipients, both those gathered for the in-person ceremony and those watching the livestream. “You need not take the world as it is, as you inherited it. In fact, you cannot. We need each and every one of you to meet this moment, to imagine a better world, and then to work for it.”

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