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Dear John,

I gave the commencement speech at the USC Gould School of Law last week in
which I challenged the graduates, and all of us with them, to squarely
face the challenges before us — the incitement to political violence, the
abnegation of alliances around the world, the rollback of voting rights
and other fundamental freedoms, attacks on law firms and universities, the
undermining of the Constitution and the rejection of the rule of law — and
then to do what Americans have been doing for 249 years: overcome them.

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Where would we be if not for those at Lexington and Concord who helped win
our independence? The hundreds of thousands who voluntarily enlisted and
were killed in the fight to defeat the Confederacy and end the institution
of slavery? The brave men and women who risked, and too often lost, their
lives in order to achieve Civil Rights and Voting Rights? The courageous
Americans who died on those beaches in Normandy 81 years ago, defeating
fascism abroad and preserving democracy here at home?

This is who we are, what we’re made of, where we come from. It’s never
been the people in power, it’s always been the power of the people. That’s
who fought the battles, who won civil rights, who inspired our fellow
Americans to do what they could, with what they had, wherever they might
be at every critical moment in our history.

So even if every traditional center of power — the presidency, the
congress, the supreme court, the algorithm media machines — is in the
hands of the corrupt and the cowardly, they still don’t have all of the
power. And what they have is not even close to the power that really
matters.

In a government of, by and for the people, the power resides in us, all of
us. We just have to remember it and use it.

We will overcome the challenges before us because we’ve overcome them
before against even greater odds. I believe in America because I believe
in the American people who still make this country “the last best hope of
earth.”

You can watch the full speech here:
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what you think of it.

Thank you,

Beto


 




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