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.
President Joe Biden told graduates Saturday at his alma mater, the University of Delaware, that "now it's your hour," as he encouraged young people in the United States to help the country live up to its ideals.
"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?" Biden said. "You can make the difference, you can lift the country up, you can meet the challenges of our time." The president said this year's graduates have a head start, representing a generation that "is the most generous, the most tolerant, the least prejudiced, the best educated" in American history.Biden also referred to the recent mass shootings: 19 children and two teachers were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, and on May 14, a gunman espousing racist hatred killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
The president said that "we cannot outlaw tragedy, I know, but we can make America safer." He called on "all Americans at this hour to join hands and make your voices heard, to work together to make this nation what it can and should be. "
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