'If we do the work, justice and the American way are within our grasp.' Tom Hanks called on Harvard’s 2023 graduating class to defend American ideals in a powerful commencement address.
The Oscar winner, who received an honorary doctorate of arts, joked he was receiving the degree “without having done a lick of work” other than playing a Harvard professor in “The Da Vinci Code” movies. “It’s not fair, but please don’t be embittered by this fact,” he said. “I don’t know much about Latin. I have no real passion for enzymes, and public global policy is something I scan on the newspaper just before I do the Wordle,” Hanks said.
” The difference, he, added, is in “how truly you believe, in how vociferously you promote, in how tightly you hold to the truth that is self-evident — that of course we are all created equally yet differently and of course we are all in this together.” “We are all but human,” Hanks said. Hanks said that, “the truth, to some, is no longer empirical. It’s no longer based on data nor common sense nor even common decency.” “Telling the truth is no longer the benchmark for public service.
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