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Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell gives the commencement address Saturday during the University of Maine at Augusta graduation in the Augusta Civic Center. Mitchell declared that it was the “openness of American society” that allowed him, the son of a textile worker and a janitor, to receive an education and go on to become the majority leader of the U.S. Senate. He reminded the more than 500 graduates in attendance that they have a responsibility to help correct society’s ills and challenged them to speak up “in the presence of evil.”
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