[applause] expand our also moral imaginations to understand and empathize with all people to our struggling, not just black folks who are struggling. Therefugees, the immigrants ral folks, the transgender, and yes, the middleaged white guy, who you may think has all the advantages, but over all the over thedes technological change and feels powerless to stop it, you have got to get in his head, too. Number three, you have to go through life with more than just passion for change. You need a strategy. I will repeat that. Have passion for you have to have a strategy. Not just awareness but action. Not just hashtags but votes. [applause] you see, change requires more than [indiscernible] in requires a program and organizing. The 1964 democratic convention, maddie liv, five feet, four inches tall, gave a fiery speech on the national stage, but then she went back home to mississippi and organized cotton pickers. She did not have the tools, technology or you can whip up a movement in minutes
Welcome everyone to the Dorothea Schmidt college of arts and letters here at Florida Atlantic university. So im the dean of the college at this partnership that weve established lois has been so valuable to our college having the Palm Beach Book festival here really is the heart and soul of our mission. We believe is your hometown Public Research university that these are the kinds of events that a university should be doing and bringing ideas to both our students as well as the community and theres no better way to bring ideas to a group than through reading great books. And so thank you for organizing this festival and bringing it to fau your home now for the Palm Beach Book festival this next the first author is really exciting to me all our authors connect to the colleges mission and different ways this one especially to we have a Africanamerican Studies Program here. Just launching in our college. And of course, we have a Creative Writing Program a masters of fine arts and creativ