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  • 10 months ago
Speaking at Harvard University, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's advice to graduates to "tear down walls" wasn't her only subtle swipe at President Donald Trump.
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00:00It is important that we do not call lies truths and do not call truths lies.
00:16But what, dear graduates, could you, what could prevent us from doing that?
00:22Again it is walls, walls in the heads of ignorance and narrow-mindedness.
00:28They run between members of a family, as well as between social groups, skin colors, peoples, religions.
00:36I wish that we tear down these walls.
00:40Walls that keep preventing us from understanding the world we want to live in together.
00:48Whether it succeeds is up to us.
00:50Therefore, dear graduates, my fourth thought.
00:53Remember, nothing is self-evident.
00:56Our individual freedoms are not self-evident.
00:59Democracy is not self-evident.
01:01Peace is not self-evident.
01:03And prosperity is not self-evident.
01:05But if we tear down the walls that hold us together,
01:08if we go into the open and dare to start anew,
01:11then everything is possible.
01:13Walls can collapse.
01:15Dictatorships can disappear.
01:17I want to leave this wish with you.
01:21Tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness,
01:25for nothing has to stay as it is.
01:28Surprise yourself with what is possible.
01:33Remember that openness always involves risks.
01:38Letting go of the old is part of the new beginning.
01:42And above all, nothing can be taken for granted.
01:47Everything is possible.
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