--- title: Maz Jobrani's Speech at UC Berkeley Graduation: Read Here description: "Let's not be the ones attacking free speech, let's be the ones defending it." canonical: https://time.com/4779563/maz-jobrani-uc-berkeleu-university-of-california/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-15T19:02:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:55:59.179Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Read Maz Jobrani's Speech at UC Berkeley Graduation og:description: "Put yourself in the shoes of the less fortunate and have empathy" og:url: https://time.com/4779563/maz-jobrani-uc-berkeleu-university-of-california/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Maz Jobrani's Speech at UC Berkeley Graduation twitter:description: "Put yourself in the shoes of the less fortunate and have empathy" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Maz Jobrani at UC Berkeley Commencement: 'Keep Rocking the Boat' by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 15, 2017 7:02 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 15, 2017 7:02 PM UTC _Maz Jobrani delivered the commencement address at his alma mater, UC Berkeley, on Saturday. See below for his prepared remarks._ --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4779563/maz-jobrani-uc-berkeleu-university-of-california/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4779563/maz-jobrani-uc-berkeleu-university-of-california/"},"headline":"Maz Jobrani at UC Berkeley Commencement: 'Keep Rocking the Boat'","datePublished":"2017-05-15T19:02:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:55:59.179Z","description":"\"Put yourself in the shoes of the less fortunate and have empathy\"","url":"https://time.com/4779563/maz-jobrani-uc-berkeleu-university-of-california/","keywords":["Education","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4779563/maz-jobrani-uc-berkeleu-university-of-california/","name":"Maz Jobrani at UC Berkeley Commencement: 'Keep Rocking the Boat'"}}]}] ```