Learn English with Rihanna INCREDIBLE Speech at Harvard University English Subtitles

so I made it to Harvard never thought

I’d be able to say that in my life but

it feels good

thank you dr. counter thank you to the

Harvard foundation and thank you Harvard

University for this great honor thank

you I’m incredibly humbled by this to be

acknowledged at this magnitude for

something that in truth I’ve never

wanted credit for when I was five or six

years old I remember watching TV and I

would see these commercials and I was

watching other children suffer in other

parts of the world and you know the

commercials were there you know you

could get 25 cent and save a child’s

life you know and I would think to

myself like I wonder how many 25 cents I

could save up to save all the kids in

Africa and I would say to myself you

know like when I grow up and I can get

rich and I’m a sick kids all over the

world I just didn’t know I would be in

the position to do that by the time I

was a teenager

as seventeen I started my career here in

America and by the age of 18 I started

my first charity organization I went on

to team up with other organizations in

the following years and met helped and

even lost some of the most beautiful

Souls from six early as Nina

Amina who passed away in 2010 from

leukemia her story inspired thousands to

volunteers donors through GMS fast

forward to 2012 when my grandmother the

lake clara brat through it she lost her

battle with cancer which is the very

reason and the driving force behind the

claret line l foundation we’re all human

and we all just want a chance

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a chance at life a chance at an

education a chance at a future really

and a CLF our mission is to impact as

many lives as possible but it starts

with just one just one as I stare out

into this beautiful room as the optimism

I see hope I see the future I know that

each and every one of you has the

opportunity to help someone else all you

need to do is help one person expecting

nothing in return to me that is a

humanitarian

people make it seem way too hard man the

truth is and what the little girl

watching those commercials didn’t know

is that you don’t have to be rich to be

a humanitarian you don’t have to be rich

to help somebody you don’t got to be

famous you don’t even have to be

college-educated

I mean I wish I was I’ll I’ll say you

know especially today it’s true I might

come back well alright

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but it starts with your neighbor the

person right next to you the person

sitting next to you in class the kid

down the block in your neighborhood you

just do whatever you can to help in any

way that you can and today I want to

challenge each of you to make a

commitment to help one person one

organization one situation that touches

your heart my grandmother always used to

say if you got a dollar there’s plenty

to share thank you ladies and gentlemen

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Rhianna we thank you for your compassion

your philanthropy to help others in need

and your wonderful music

on behalf of the children of Cambridge I

present you these flowers as a token of

our appreciation

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thank you very much ladies and gentlemen

that now ends our program have a nice

evening

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