Watch | Harvard Student’s Viral ‘Humanity’ Graduation Address

As an international development student, Yurong “Luanna” Jiang became the first Chinese woman ever selected as the student speaker for a Harvard graduation ceremony.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts: A Chinese student’s graduation speech at Harvard University calling for ‘unity in a divided world’ has gone viral, days after the Trump Administration vowed to “aggressively” revoke the visas of the students from China.

As an international development student, Yurong “Luanna” Jiang became the first Chinese woman ever selected as the student speaker for a Harvard graduation ceremony.

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On Thursday, the day she delivered the speech, a federal judge blocked a Department of Homeland Security order seeking to prevent the Ivy League university from enrolling international students.

“If we still believe in a shared future, let us not forget: those we label as enemies – they, too, are human. In seeing their humanity, we find our own,” she said.

“We don’t rise by proving each other wrong. We rise by refusing to let one another go,” student speaker added.