Lisa Abbott
Class of 1992

Speech at the 150th anniversary celebration for the Campus Y, October 16, 2010

It’s important for all of us to declare—over and over—what we have in common.

We love our mountains. . . and our miners.

We all live downstream and downwind.

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Lisa Abbott '92, Organizing Director of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth The Great Hall, Student Union, UNC-Chapel Hill

I believe that each of us—in whatever course of life we choose to take—needs to pursue our lives as if our actions matter. As if what we do makes a difference.

This is, I think, an operational definition of hope.

By acting as if what we do makes a difference, we release ourselves from the paralysis that can otherwise set in.

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