As we celebrate these past four years of all our students, we also recognize the social movements happening around us and how our Jesuit education calls us to contribute to their progression.
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And in this house we have one chore. And that is to make necessary trouble. Make necessary trouble.pic.twitter.com/1Yn6WSLeJQ
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I walked where John Lewis marched that fateful Bloody Sunday 53 years ago. I felt the steel of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and gazed upon the path taken towards liberation once obstructed not by a Red Sea but one of blue.pic.twitter.com/UjbRqwvILk
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Here’s something you may not know about that bridge in Selma. Etched into a thin black sheet of metal drilled into the cross beams worn and faded from time are the words: Made in Milwaukee.
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Well, aren’t we all made in Milwaukee? You see we are not walls. We are bridges; Avenues of civil rights; Freeways of social justice; Paths towards liberation We are bridges. We are Milwaukee. And
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When we engage the gritty realities of this world, that shake us to our core and make us question our roles as meaningful contributors to the world around us; When we wonder who in the world will we become and if will we ever make the difference we dreamed of ourselves one making
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When we engage again and again in God’s messy work for justice, we may ask ourselves: Are we enough? Remember that we are made in Milwaukee. We are Champions of Jesuit Higher Education. And we are Alumni and Alumnae of Marquette University.
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Are we enough? We always have been We still are We will always be bridges. Thank you Milwaukee. Thank you Marquette. And thank you Class of 2018.
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Read the full text and watch the video athttps://stories.marquette.edu/the-gritty-reality-of-this-world-96a9c1cd4c71 …
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