People sit in the rain and listen as President Barack Obama delivers the President Barack Obama gestures as he delivers the Morehouse College 129th commencement speech at Morehouse College Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
People sit in the rain and listen as President Barack Obama delivers the President Barack Obama gestures as he delivers the Morehouse College 129th commencement speech at Morehouse College Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Rutgers University President Robert L. Barchi gestures to students in the rain at Rutgers University's football stadium in Piscataway, N.J., Sunday, May 19, 2013, during graduation ceremonies. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
The Dalai Lama receives an honorary degree at Tulane University's 179th commencement ceremony at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Saturday, May 18, 2013. He also delivered the commencement address. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
University of Minnesota, Rochester chancellor Stephen Lehmkuhle, left, watches as the first-ever class of undergrads poses for a photo outside the Mayo Civic Center, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Rochester, Minn., before the start of the graduation ceremony. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, David Joles) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT.
Stephen Colbert delivers the 2013 Valedictory Address during the University of Virginia's 2013 Valedictory Exercises at John Paul Jones Arena, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/The Daily Progress, Sabrina Schaeffer)
In a commencement address at Atlanta's historically black Morehouse College, President Obama said graduates should "find time to defend the powerless."
The president said his own success was due to "the special obligation I felt, as a black man like you, to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had ? because there but for the grace of God, go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed."
In New Jersey, Rutgers University graduated the largest class in school history ? an estimated 14,302 students.
At New York's Hofstra University, students wore white ribbons at their graduation ceremony in honor of Andrea Rebello, one of their colleagues killed by a gunshot early Friday morning. A police officer accidentally killed 21-year-old Rebello as an armed intruder held her in a headlock.
Here are some images from college commencements across the nation:
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