Amal Clooney tells grads to have courage
NASHVILLE (AP) — Amal Clooney urged young students at Vanderbilt University to have courage, citing some of the human rights cases she has worked on, because it inspires others and creates rights for future generations. The human rights lawyer spoke Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee for senior day, a part of the university’s commencement activities. She used examples of courageous people, including Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Vanderbilt students who took part in sit-ins during the Civil Rights era to fight for equal rights. Clooney admitted that she had never been to Tennessee before, but said her husband George Clooney told her the university had a good basketball team in the Vanderbilt Commodores.