{"id":1938642,"date":"2023-05-26T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-hanks-delivers-harvard-commencement-speech-laced-with-superhero-references-the-truth-is-sacred\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:00:22","slug":"tom-hanks-delivers-harvard-commencement-speech-laced-with-superhero-references-the-truth-is-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-hanks-delivers-harvard-commencement-speech-laced-with-superhero-references-the-truth-is-sacred\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks gives Harvard speech with superhero nods: &#8216;Truth is sacred&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftom-hanks-delivers-harvard-commencement-speech-laced-with-superhero-references-the-truth-is-sacred%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938642&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Tom Hanks Delivers Harvard Commencement Speech<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Actor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tom-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">hanks<\/a>&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tom Hanks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> delivered the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/harvard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvard University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> commencement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-covid-case-surges-more-fake-news\/\" title=\"Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?\">speech<\/a> for 2023 on Thursday, speaking about how the future leaders of America had a \u201cresponsibility\u201d to seek the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 66-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">celebrity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> sprinkled multiple superhero references into his speech as well. Hanks also received an honorary degree from Harvard.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Embracing Liberty for All<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEvery day, every year, and for every graduating class, there is a choice to be made, the same option for all grown-ups to make: to be one of three types of Americans \u2014 those who embrace liberty for all, those who won\u2019t, or those who are indifferent,\u201d Hanks began while addressing the graduating class at Harvard Yard\u2019s Tercentenary Theatre, per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2023\/05\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">actor<\/a>-tom-hanks-sends-off-harvards-class-of-2023\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Harvard Gazette<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOnly the first do the work of creating a more perfect union,\u201d the \u201cForrest Gump\u201d actor said. \u201cWe are all in a cage match, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-hanks-delivers-harvard-commencement-speech-laced-with-superhero-references-the-truth-is-sacred\/\" title=\"Tom Hanks gives Harvard speech with superhero nods: 'Truth is sacred'.\">mixed martial arts battle royale<\/a> with agents of intolerance and braying incompetence, the malevolent equals to Imperial stormtroopers, Lex Luthor, and Loki. And we could use a superhero right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere ain\u2019t no Superman, nor anyone else in his Justice League,\u201d Hanks said. \u201cIn the never<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-joe-manchin-told-chuck-schumer-he-was-fing-stupid-for-attacking-gop\/\" title=\"Report: Joe Manchin Told Chuck Schumer He Was \u2018F***ing Stupid\u2019 For Attacking GOP\">-ending battle<\/a>, you have all officially joined as of today. The difference is in how truly you believe, in how vociferously you promote, in how tightly you hold onto the truth that is self-evident: that of course we are all created equally yet differently, and of course, we are all in this together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe all get to complain about The Man, and we all have debts we gotta pay, and we\u2019re all entitled to a day off to lay about. But the work that is called for is the construction of our \u2018more perfect union,\u2019\u201d he said, as the publication reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The job will never be completed, but it requires rigorous attention and unfading wherewithal from all of us.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The work is the keeping of the promises of our promised land, the practice of decency, the protection of freedom, and the promotion of liberty for all, with no exceptions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That takes a lot of work done on multiple job sites every single day, and you can call each of them a battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Sacred Truth<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor the truth to some is no longer empirical. It\u2019s no longer based on data, nor common sense, nor even common decency,\u201d the actor said. \u201cTelling the truth is no longer the benchmark for public service. It\u2019s no longer the salve to our fears, or the guide to our actions. Truth is now considered malleable, by opinion and by zero-sum endgames.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hanks put the final burden on the graduating class, saying, \u201cThe responsibility is yours. Ours. The effort is optional. But the truth, the truth is sacred. Unalterable. 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