Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’ Gives an Anti-Trump Graduation Speech at Wake Forest University

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PELLEY: “What is the meaning of life? Who are you? You are the educated. You are the compassionate. You are the fierce defenders of democracy, the seekers of truth, the vanguard against ignorance. You are million strong across our land. I might be sorry that you were picked by history for this role, but maybe that was the plan. Hard times are going to make you better and going to make you stronger. In a few minutes, when that diploma hit your hand, it’s not a piece of paper we’re giving you. We’re handing you the baton. Run with it!
(Applause)
Why am I here? I’m here today because I’m 50 years farther down the trail than you are. And I have doubled back this morning to tell you the one thing that I have learned from Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Nadia Murad, Sam Attar and a thousand others: In a moment like this, when our country is in peril, don’t ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what’s the meaning of you?”