Honorary Degree Recipients and Speakers
- John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States
- William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Stephen Breyer, Justice U.S. Supreme Court
- Antonin Scalia, Justice U.S. Supreme Court
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice U.S. Supreme Court
- Andrew Card, Chief of Staff to George W. Bush
- Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, Green Party Presidential nominee
- Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
- Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist
- Edwin Meese III, U.S. Attorney General
- Richard Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals
- Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City
- Robert S. Mueller III, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey
Read more about this topic: Suffolk University Law School
Famous quotes containing the words degree, recipients and/or speakers:
“Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)
“The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.”
—Njabulo Ndebele (b. 1948)