I wanted to start, Class of 2016, by opening your eyes to the moment that you are in. If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you didn't know ahead of time who you were going to be - what nationality, what gender, what race, whether you'd be rich or poor, gay or straight, what faith you'd be born into - you wouldn't choose 100 years ago. You wouldn't choose the fifties, or the sixties, or the seventies. You'd choose right now. (Barack Obama)

I wanted to start, Class of 2016, by opening your eyes to the moment that you are in. If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you didn't know ahead of time who you were going to be - what nationality, what gender, what race, whether you'd be rich or poor, gay or straight, what faith you'd be born into - you wouldn't choose 100 years ago. You wouldn't choose the fifties, or the sixties, or the seventies. You'd choose right now.

Barack Obama

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