Posted on 05/16/2016 5:25:03 AM PDT by Biggirl
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged college graduates who seek to "preserve liberty" to do so by fulfilling the duties of their daily vocations rather than attempting to achieve sweeping political goals. "At the risk of understating what is necessary to preserve liberty in our form of government, I think more and more that it depends on good citizens, discharging their daily duties in their daily obligations," Thomas said Saturday during a commencement address at Hillsdale College, a small liberal arts college in Michigan.
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Clarence Thomas had a beautiful message for young people. One key takeaway is to cultivate your garden. High ambition to “change the world” is maybe noble, but you should focus instead on achieving something locally. Care about your neighbors and that virtue will ripple up to the nation as a whole.
“Everyone wants to change the world. Nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” P.J. O’Rourke
I get the Hillsdale news letter. One of the few, if any, colleges that would invite Thomas and not burn the college to the ground in protest upon his arrival.
My daughter just graduated from college. The speaker said, “diversity”, “tolerance” and “giving back” quite a bit.
To this idiot, getting your degree wasn’t about personal success or accomplishment. It was about sharing and global obligation. Doing well financially without realizing your obligation to others wouldn’t be right.
His is a very nice message, but we’ve got communists, socialists, Marxists,and assorted fellow travelers eating away at our nation every day. These busy beavers get paid by hundreds of “foundations” to do their evil work. Meanwhile, the good folk go to work and raise families meeting their societal obligations, all the while asking “What happened to our nation? Where did it go?”
At my son’s graduation from the University of Colorado a couple years ago, the business school commencement speaker was outstanding — a full-on cheerleading speech about the wonders of capitalism and freedom. It was wonderful.
“giving back”
That phrase annoys me to no end. “Give back”? To whom? We already give back to our churches, parents, and friends.
What they mean is “give” to the losers who won’t make any effort to go through college and become contributing members of society. And that’s taken care of when we “give back” to the government — and it’s called taxes.
Anyhow, that phrase bugs the hell out of me.
I remember hearing an interesting sermon based on John 21, where Jesus appeared to the disciples as they were fishing.
One moral of this: if in doubt GO TO WORK. It’s fine to seek the divine, etc, but unless and until you are directly instructed to to otherwise, get your butt up Monday morning and get about your business, be productive, be doing what your are supposed to be doing; if the Lord wants to get your attention to give you other instructions He is perfectly capable of doing so!
....But the same “good folks” are NOW saying “enough” by their growing support of Donald J. Trump.
“Care about your neighbors and that virtue will ripple up to the nation as a whole.”
Money quote of the day!
A much needed simple message to today’s graduates.
I hope it well received by other college and university graduates too.
Great! Nice to see that message in the Bible. I like your message a lot, RedStateRocker.
Excellent. Helping Mom.
A very non-description of a very iconic college. Hillsdale, which I do support with endowing a scholarship, is famous for rejecting all government aid and thus immune from government mandates! It is a liberal arts college in the classic sense of liberal as open to all viewpoints. Its Imprimis Newsletter is a free publication and I expect to read Justice Thomas' remarks in a future edition.
At little Miss Lurkin’s graduation a few years back the speaker was a foreign woman who kept telling the kids to have piss in their hats.
I found it odd. But later learned it was supposed to be peace in their hearts.
If you have that, urine trouble.
But later learned it was supposed to be peace in their hearts.
The nice thing about commencement speeches is that 99% of them are eminently forgettable, and the students forget them almost instantly.
Giving back is typically done by successful people at the end of their careers and revolves around mentoring younger people who aspire to succeed by passing down and transferring the know how and wisdom yo the next generation
The left uses the concept of “ giving back” to support their agenda and recruit talented people to support-obsession their agenda and feel good about themselves by engaging in well intentioned, politically correct but essentially irrelevant and ineffective projects that constitute noble gestures that do little to solve world problems.
Its kind of like the Russian Czar era Potemkin villages applied to charity
They are the secular version of the "Pharisees."
On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
Compass, Broken; 1 each
Once upon a time this was a useful instrument for pointing the direction a boy should go.
Today, not so much - as the needle has fallen off and
rendered the tool into a directionally errant piece of plastic memorabilia.
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