First lady Michelle Obama told Oberlin College graduates over Memorial Day weekend “that issues like global warming, marriage equality and economic inequality were the “revolutions” of our time” just like “just like Martin Luther King, Jr.’s civil rights struggle during the 1960s.” The Daily Caller,
“You see, in his speech to those Oberlin graduates 50 years ago, Dr. King urged them,” Obama said, “not to sleep through the civil rights revolution that was raging across this country.”
“And, graduates, climate change, economic inequality, human rights, criminal justice -– these are the revolutions of your time,” she said. “And you have as much responsibility and just as much power to wake up and play your part in our great American story. Because it is absolutely still possible to make a difference. The great moments of our history are not decades in our past; they’re happening right now, today, in our lifetimes.”
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