“Graduates, each of us, is only here because someone else faced down challenges for us. We are only who we are because someone else struggled and sacrificed for us,And when your journey seems too hard, when you run into a chorus of cynics who tell you that you’re being foolish to keep believing or that you can’t do something, or that you should just give up, or you should just settle — you might say to yourself a little phrase that I’ve found handy these last eight years: Yes, we can. Congratulations, Class of 2016!” The Hilltop Howard University