Pelosi Graduation Address at Cornell University Convocation PR Newswire (press release)
. Young people want to address the climate crisis and preserve the planet. Young people – especially new graduates - want jobs and opportunity.“America has always been the land of opportunity. This has been the source of our greatness as a nation. Opportunity has been the promise for those who come to our shores; opportunity has been the responsibility from one generation to the next.
“At certain times in our nation’s history, we have had to make a decision to strengthen American opportunity.
“The Greeks have a word for this: ananke. As I have shared with other students, in classical Greek, ananke means destiny. It also means scarcity. The Greeks were suggesting that times of scarcity drive us to choose a destiny—and that these are moments when history can be shaped through deliberate choices - decisions.
“Throughout our history, America has confronted and surmounted each moment of ‘ananke.’ During the Industrial Revolution, we decided to give our workers the opportunity to move from the fields into factories; during the technological revolution, we decided to commit our nation to innovation.
