--- title: Read Cory Booker's Speech to UPenn's Class of 2017 description: "May your vision and your love not just change the world but make a world of change for everyone that you can." canonical: https://time.com/4779661/senator-cory-booker-new-jersey-university-of-pennsylvania-upenn/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-15T19:42:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:56:06.669Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Senator Cory Booker to UPenn Class of 2017: 'I See You, I Love You' og:description: "You’re going to go out for the big challenges, the big fights" og:url: https://time.com/4779661/senator-cory-booker-new-jersey-university-of-pennsylvania-upenn/ 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: Senator Cory Booker to UPenn Class of 2017: 'I See You, I Love You' twitter:description: "You’re going to go out for the big challenges, the big fights" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Senator Cory Booker to UPenn Class of 2017: 'I See You, I Love You' by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 15, 2017 7:42 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 15, 2017 7:42 PM UTC _New Jersey Senator Cory Booker delivered the commencement remarks at the University of Pennsylvania on Monday. See his remarks below, as provided by his office._ --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4779661/senator-cory-booker-new-jersey-university-of-pennsylvania-upenn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4779661/senator-cory-booker-new-jersey-university-of-pennsylvania-upenn/"},"headline":"Senator Cory Booker to UPenn Class of 2017: 'I See You, I Love You'","datePublished":"2017-05-15T19:42:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:56:06.669Z","description":"\"You’re going to go out for the big challenges, the big fights\"","url":"https://time.com/4779661/senator-cory-booker-new-jersey-university-of-pennsylvania-upenn/","keywords":["Education","Cory Booker","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/4779661/senator-cory-booker-new-jersey-university-of-pennsylvania-upenn/","name":"Senator Cory Booker to UPenn Class of 2017: 'I See You, I Love You'"}}]}] ```