Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Voroshilov, outside Council of Ministers Building, by Dmitri Baltermants. Gift from journalist George Stephanopoulos. The Stephanopoulos Collection features work from a range of photographers depicting politics and institutions, television and media, Civil Rights movements and the Great Depression.

Eye of the Beholder, Serigraph by Robert Davidson in 1993, anonymous gift

Boo-Hoo, Linocut by Kara Walker in 2000, gift of Friends of Houghton House - Paula Kalenik '71

Hatsuhana under the Waterfall, Woodcut, by Utagawa Yasugoro in 1840

Early Classic Carved Bowl with Wave Design, Cut Foot and Deity Marks, 250-550, Ceramic, Loan of Dr. J. Philip Keeve '48

How the West is One, Tintype wet collodion process, digitally printed on paper, by Will Wilson in 2012. Gallery purchase, The Clarence A. Davis '48 Endowed Fund for the Visual Arts.

Otherworldly, Woodcut, by Karen Kunc in 2012, Gallery purchase, The Clarence A. Davis ’48 Endowed Fund for the Visual Arts

“I say to you our country is a different country, our country is a better country because a whole generation got in the way.”

“I stand here today, Mr. President and members of the faculty, as a living example of the power of commitment, the power of faith, and the ability of ideas to transform a nation.”

“I say to you – a new generation of leaders – a new group of young people that have their path yet in their way. It is your time to speak up, to speak out.”

“As new students you must do your part to help hold the house together, not just the American house, but the world house.”

“I … asked my mother, asked my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, ‘why segregation, why racial discrimination?’ and they said ‘that’s the way it is. Don’t get in the way. Don’t get in trouble.’”

“And I said that those of us who live in America, maybe our foremothers and our forefathers all came to this great land in different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.”

“This little piece of real estate, this little planet we call earth. Call it the house of Africa, the house of Europe, the house of Egypt, the house of Central and South America. We all live in the same house.”

“But, in 1955 at the age of 15 … The action of Rosa Parks, the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., inspired me to find a way to get in the way. I got in the way. I got in trouble. It was good trouble. It was necessary trouble.”

“As a young child I tasted the beautiful fruits of segregation and racial discrimination and I didn’t like it.”