President Joe Biden has told graduates at his alma mater, the University of Delaware, that “now it’s your hour,” and he’s encouraging young people in the United States to help the country live up to its ideals. And with the nation mourning victims of two mass shootings in as many weeks, the president lamented the division and hatred in the country he governs. He bemoaned a “crisis of faith” in U.S. institutions, and he pressed graduates to work to bind up the country’s wounds. He told graduates: “Your generation, more than anyone else will have to answer the question, Who are we? What do we stand for? What do we believe? Who will we be?”
“Well, now it’s your hour. The challenges are immense, foreign and domestic, but so are the possibilities. … Everything is possible in America,’’ he said. ”This is a decisive decade for America at a time when we can choose the future we want, at a time when we must decide that darkness will not prevail over light.’
“Too much violence. Too much fear. Too much grief,” Biden said in his graduation speech. “Let’s be clear: Evil came to that elementary school classroom in Texas, to that grocery store in New York, to far too many places where innocents have died.” Biden was presented with the university's medal of distinction before his remarks. He had previously received an honorary degree in 2004.
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