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The award recognized Mitchell's lengthy political career, which has included work as a federal judge, a senator and chair of the Northern Ireland peace negotiations that resulted in the Good Friday Agreements of 1998.
During his speech, Mitchell discussed two lessons he learned from his work in Ireland that he said could be beneficial to Americans.
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) called on "the privileged few," students and faculty at Harvard Law School (HLS), to "ensure hope for the hopeless" during a keynote speech Friday for a two-day symposium on negotiation.
Mitchell said he fears that many young people incorrectly believe America's international influence stems from its military and economic power, rather than the ideals of "individual liberty, equality and opportunity before the law" that he believes truly set America apart as a great nation.
But America is still not perfectly equal, he said. Mitchell charged the audience to "conduct themselves so that this aspiration is truly realized."