First Lady in New Orleans today - tells Dillard grads to stay hungry for learning

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First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address to graduates of Dillard University in New Orleans today pic.twitter.com/C0sAcgK58q



Jonathan Bachman -AP Photo


excerpts of the First Lady's speech to graduates from Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune

First Lady:

"Today I stand before a sea of young geniuses. Oh, yeah. So graduates I hope that you understand this day is not just the culmination of your own dreams but the realization of the dreams of many who came before you."

"Mother volunteered at her school and was there every day. "I’d walk by the office, there’d she be." Embarrassing at the time, "but looking back, I have no doubt that my classmates and I got a better education because she was there looking over their shoulder."

"No dream is too big, no vision is too bold. As long as we stay hungry for education and let that hunger be our north star, there is nothing, nothing we cannot achieve . . . Maybe you could run for school board or Congress or even yes President of the United States … I cannot wait to see the world that your children will be born into."

Jonathan Bachman -AP Photo

from CHEVEL JOHNSON, Associated Press:

"This is the realization of the dreams of so many who came before you," she said. "You should be so proud and so happy and so excited, but you shouldn't be satisfied. Ask yourselves, 'What about all those geniuses who'll never get this chance?' ... When people fall behind in school, they fall behind in life."

She pointed the more than 200 Nigerian girls who were recently kidnapped "for wanting an education and wanting to go to school," and 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl who survived a gunshot to the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 for advocating education for girls . . .

"We got here today because of so many people who toiled and sweat and bled and died for us ... people who never dreamed of getting a college education for themselves but who worked and saved and sacrificed so that we could be here today. We owe them. We owe them. And the only way to pay back that debt is by making those same kinds of sacrifices and investments for the next generation."












Jonathan Bachman -AP Photo

audio of speech: http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2014/05/listen_first_lady_michelle_oba.html#incart_river

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1. That's just serving a softball to Faux Nooze

Imagine the fun they'll have spinning this!

[MineralMan]

2. I'm appalled that she didn't bring up human trafficking!

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3. Oh, the the hypocrisy!1!!

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4. selfie game x 1000

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This chick just rose her selfie game x 1000. She took a selfie with Michelle Obama 😎


N.T. @NIKKI_T
This was First Lady's first ever selfie at a commencement.... #wemadeit #dillardgrad14 #mydu

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11. each of the photos were great...thanks for sharing

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12. +.

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6. And before FOX

comes in to try and spin this, "staying hungry" is basically slang for working hard towards what one wants in life.

[Cha]

7. mahalo bigtree~

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8. my pleasure, Cha

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9. Just beautiful on so many levels..

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10. in light of student loan debt--the GOP is on notice

the connection between hunger and debt runs deep