(gentle music)
WENDY KOPP: These are uncertain times that need
your energy and leadership more than ever.
As Princeton students with the privilege
of a world-class education and the networks and credibility
that come with it, you have a particular responsibility
to rise to that challenge.
Don't think that advocacy efforts in the wake
of the latest injustice will sufficiently
ameliorate your moral responsibility to lead lives
in the nation's service
and in the service of humanity.
Because it's doing that,
the heavy lifting of actually reshaping our systems,
that will create a just world.
(gentle music)
(crowd cheering)
ANTHONY FAUCI: Find your source of joy and happiness
and fully embrace it.
And think upon your future, as that stated
by the American political theorist John Shaw,
and I quote, "The future is not some place we are going to
but one we are creating,
the paths are not to be found, but made,
aNd the activity of making them changes
both the maker and the destination."
(singing) - Our hearts will live
while we shall give
three cheers
for Old Nassau!
(cheering)
(gentle music)
GEN. MARK MILLEY: No matter what, where you go,
it doesn't matter
if you spend 20, 30, 40 years in uniform,
it doesn't matter if you decide to become a lawyer
or doctor or professor, university president.
The only thing that matters is that you pay back.
You pay back in some way of service to others.
They're dedicating their lives to the service of others
by donning the cloth of our nation in our uniform.
(gentle music)
(crowds cheering)
NATALIA ORLOVSKY: I wish you safe travels
and gentle landings.
I wish you time for rest and time for joy.
I wish you the space for critical reflection,
complexity and change.
More than anything, I wish you hope
even, and perhaps especially, in the face of uncertainty.
I hope that wherever you end up, you get to
build communities founded on empathy and radical compassion.
I hope that you find healthy
and sustainable ways to advocate for progress and change.
And I hope that things get better.
I hope that someday soon, we all fare well.
CHRISTOPHER L. EISGRUBER: I hope that today
and in the week ahead
as you celebrate your degree, you will take time
to thank the friends, family members, teachers, mentors
and others who help you to persist across the finish line.
None of us succeed on our own
in normal times or in difficult ones.
And in that spirit, I hope too, that as all
of you pursue quests and adventures beyond this campus,
you will help others to persist
across the finish line as you have done
so remarkably yourselves.
I know that whatever you do, you will make Princeton proud
and that you will put your talents, creativity
and character to work in ways
that we can scarcely imagine today.
To the Great Class of 2022
congratulations.
(people cheering)
(gentle music)