Simmons College @SimmonsCollege🔁Congratulations to our Class of 2017 graduates!! #sims17

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Ford Foundation @FordFoundation🔁Listening is key to our freedom of speech. -- @darrenwalker at #Sims17 graduation ceremony

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Young Audiences NY @yanewyork🔁 Listening is key to our freedom of speech. -- @darrenwalker at #Sims17 graduation ceremony

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VnyrdBrze @vnyrdbrze🔁 Congratulations to our Class of 2017 graduates!! #sims17

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Monica Terrell Key @MonicaTerrellKe🔁 .@DarrenWalker at #Sims17 commencement: The late Gwen Ifill taught me how to listen.

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Ford Foundation @FordFoundation🔁.@DarrenWalker at #Sims17 commencement: The late Gwen Ifill taught me how to listen.

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁Speech can't be productive if everyone is shouting over each other. We lower the quality of our discourse by upping disagreements. #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁.@SimmonsCollege alum, the late Gwen Ifill embodied the special relationship btw freedom of speech & our responsibility to listen. #Sims17

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jeffry sebayang @jf_selv🔁 Only when we listen can we forge compromise and a common future. #Sims17

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jeffry sebayang @jf_selv🔁 Without freedom of speech, there’s no preacher in the pulpit, or defense at a trial. #Sims17

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jeffry sebayang @jf_selv🔁 Without freedom of speech, we do not get to cast our vote, or call our representatives. #Sims17

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Qenterion @Qenterion🔁 Welcome to Boston, @darrenwalker. #Sims17 is in for a treat! twitter.com

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Qenterion @Qenterion🔁My message for graduates today: Our freedom of speech comes with the responsibility to listen.

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Monica Terrell Key @MonicaTerrellKe🔁No event is complete without him... class of 2017! Graduation day Prof. White!

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Meryl Grambo @GramboMeryl🔁 .@GinaEPA's mother "Don't waste a good worry on things you can't control!" #Sims17 #sharksout17

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Kat Guillotte @kat_attackkkkk🔁 "When it comes to service you better love and appreciate the struggle." -@GinaEPA #sims17

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Kat Guillotte @kat_attackkkkk🔁 This college [@SimmonsCollege] has taught you to discuss ideas, to listen, learn and question -- @GinaEPA #sims17

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Kat Guillotte @kat_attackkkkk🔁 "We have to look at today as an opportunity to rise above." - @GinaEPA #sims17

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Kat Guillotte @kat_attackkkkk🔁"When I look at your faces the only thing I see is hope for our collective future." -Gina McCarthy

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#Justice4AdrianJones @lisa_cardon🔁Trey Gowdy: #Justice4Adrian Investigate #KS #DCF #adrianjones - Sign the Petition! change.org via @Change #kswx #sims17 #sims17

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Rosie S. Delacruz @RosieDelacruz82🔁On behalf of the Class of 1982, I congratulate all the undergraduate members of '17. Go out & do good! See you at Reu twitter.com nion 2022!

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Malika Saada Saar @MalikaSaadaSaar🔁Thank you for lifting up Gwen Ifill in your commencement remarks. Listening is an act of courage.

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Simmons College @SimmonsCollege🔁Thank you to everyone who made this day so special! If you missed any of the action you can catch up here! twitter.com

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What's next... @COMPOSITIONFUND🔁 We have a responsibility to listen because listening allows us to extend the freedom of speech to others. #Sims17

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svs @_svs_🔁 "With the freedom of speech comes the responsibility to listen" -- @darrenwalker #sims17

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notimundo nacional @notimundonacio1🔁Trump says he did not ask Comey to end investigation
-> clkmein.com #news #psfk2017 #trump #politics #Stern2017 #sims17 #cnn #RT

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Charon Darris @DobaDarris🔁 "Seek out stories you may not want to hear & opinions that you may disagree with" -- @darrenwalker #Sims17

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Ford Foundation @FordFoundation🔁.'s message to grads: Our freedom of speech comes with the responsibility to listen. twitter.com

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Michele Norris @michele_norris🔁Thank you for lifting up Gwen Ifill in your commencement remarks. Listening is an act of courage. twitter.com

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Ford Foundation @FordFoundation🔁 .@darrenwalker addressing the @SimmonsCollege graduates on how listening is a revolutionary action #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁Only when we listen can we begin to heal the divides in our country and build bridges that our democracy so desperately needs #Sims17

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EnrollmentAtSimmons @VPEnrollment🔁.@darrenwalker addressing the @SimmonsCollege graduates on how listening is a revolutionary action #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁Only when we listen can we forge compromise and a common future. #Sims17

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Simmons College @SimmonsCollege🔁"You don't have to change your position to change your perspective. Only when we listen can we find common ground." @darrenwalker #Sims17

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EnrollmentAtSimmons @VPEnrollment🔁"Seek out stories you may not want to hear & opinions that you may disagree with" -- @darrenwalker #Sims17

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Simmons Admission @ApplySimmons🔁Graduate commencement speaker reminds graduates about the responsibility of listening. twitter.com

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Simmons Press Room @SimmonsNews🔁 "For our freedom of speech to work, we need to listen to one another." @darrenwalker #Sims17

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Mauricio Palma @fotopoem🔁 The freedom to express oneself is a prerequisite for all our other freedoms. #Sims17

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Debra Faulk @DKFTampa🔁 For our freedom of speech to work, we need to listen to one another. #Sims17

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Simmons College @SimmonsCollege🔁"For our freedom of speech to work, we need to listen to one another." @darrenwalker #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁We have a responsibility to listen because listening allows us to extend the freedom of speech to others. #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁When we live in a free society, we are charged with protecting freedom for one another through our responsibilities to one another. #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁For our freedom of speech to work, we need to listen to one another. #Sims17

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Simmons College @SimmonsCollege🔁 "The freedom to express oneself is a prerequisite to all other freedoms" -- @darrenwalker #Sims17

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Simmons Alumnae/i @SimmonsAlumni🔁"We have a responsibility to listen, because listening allows us to extend the freedom of speech to others." -@darrenwalker #Sims17

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K.G. Schneider @kgs🔁Honorary @SimmonsCollege doctoral recipient Darren Walker giving an inspiring stemwinder about freedom and its responsibilities #sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁So even though the internet has given us more opportunities to speak producing more speech is not the same as more productive speech #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁Today, more people feel entitled to exercise their free speech without restraint; harassment has become more commonplace. #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁Without freedom of speech, there’s no preacher in the pulpit, or defense at a trial. #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁Without freedom of speech, we do not get to cast our vote, or call our representatives. #Sims17

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Darren Walker @darrenwalker🔁The freedom to express oneself is a prerequisite for all our other freedoms. #Sims17

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EnrollmentAtSimmons @VPEnrollment🔁"The freedom to express oneself is a prerequisite to all other freedoms" -- @darrenwalker #Sims17

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EnrollmentAtSimmons @VPEnrollment🔁"With the freedom of speech comes the responsibility to listen" -- @darrenwalker #sims17

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EnrollmentAtSimmons @VPEnrollment🔁Congrats to our staff graduating today with their Master's from . Great work Sara & Vivian.

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Ford Foundation @FordFoundation🔁WATCH: addresses grads: Our freedom of speech comes with the responsibility to listen twitter.com

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EnrollmentAtSimmons @VPEnrollment🔁.@SimmonsCollege is awarding 1,000 degrees today!! #sims17

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Simmons Admission @ApplySimmons🔁Congrats to our staff graduating today with their Master's from . Great work Sara & Vivian. twitter.com

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