The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them', cautioned acclaimed author and award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen, in a commencement speech for Grinnell College. With more than a dozen contemporary graduation speeches that dissect the world as it is and imagine what it could be, The World is Waiting for You brings forth the courageous people who've dared to transform the podium into a pulpit for championing peace, justice, protest and a better world.'