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San Francisco Mayor Speaks at Commencement, Calls on Graduates to Change the World
In his address at USF’s 167th commencement ceremonies today, Daniel Lurie, mayor of San Francisco, called on new graduates to “find something in society that you think is unacceptable, and then go do something about it.”
The mayor continued: “You can’t help people until you meet them, talk with them, listen to them. Put people and progress ahead of politics. Don’t look away from the hard stuff.”
The founder and former CEO of Tipping Point Community, an anti-poverty nonprofit in San Francisco, Mayor Lurie told new graduates that they won’t get everything right, but that mistakes shouldn’t stop them.
“Listen to the words of Maya Angelou,” he said. “‘Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.’”
His parting advice: “Ask yourself what you can do to change things, and then change them. When you are audacious in your aims, people rise to meet you.”
At today’s commencement, 737 students received degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Management, and the School of Nursing and Health Professions.
Mayor Lurie gave the College of Arts and Sciences commencement address to 234 undergraduate degree and 100 graduate degree recipients.
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