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1、2023年美国经典英文演讲100篇1988_DNC_Addre 美国经典英文演讲100篇:1988 DNC Addre Take New York, the dynamic metropolis.What makes New York so special? Its the invitation at the Statue of Liberty, Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled maes who yearn to breathe free. Not restricted to English only.Many people, many

2、cultures, many languages with one thing in common: They yearn to breathe free.Common ground.Tonight in Atlanta, for the first time in this century, we convene in the South; a state where Governors once stood in school house doors; where Julian Bond was denied a seat in the State Legislature because

3、of his conscientious objection to the Vietnam War; a city that, through its five Black Universities, has graduated more black students than any city in the world.Atlanta, now a modern intersection of the New South.Common ground.Thats the challenge of our party tonight - left wing, right wing.Progre

4、will not come through boundle liberalism nor static conservatism, but at the critical ma of mutual survival - not at boundle liberalism nor static conservatism, but at the critical ma of mutual survival.It takes two wings to fly.Whether youre a hawk or a dove, youre just a bird living in the same en

5、vironment, in the same world.The Bible teaches that when lions and lambs lie down together, none will be afraid, and there will be peace in the valley.It sounds impoible.Lions eat lambs.Lambs sensibly flee from lions.Yet even lions and lambs find common ground.Why? Because neither lions nor lambs wa

6、nt the forest to catch on fire.Neither lions nor lambs want acid rain to fall.Neither lions nor lambs can survive nuclear war.If lions and lambs can find common ground, surely we can as well - as civilized people.The only time that we win is when we come together.In 1960, John Kennedy, the late John

7、 Kennedy, beat Richard Nixon by only 112,000 votes - le than one vote per precinct.He won by the margin of our hope.He brought us together.He reached out. He had the courage to defy his advisors and inquire about Dr.Kings jailing in Albany, Georgia.We won by the margin of our hope, inspired by coura

8、geous leadership.In 1964, Lyndon Johnson brought both wings together - the thesis, the antithesis, and the creative synthesis - and together we won.In 1976, Jimmy Carter unified us again, and we won.When do we not come together, we never win.In 1968, the division and despair in July led to our defea

9、t in November.In 1980, rancor in the spring and the summer led to Reagan in the fall.When we divide, we cannot win.We must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change and growth.Today when we debated, differed, deliberated, agreed to agree, agreed to disagree, when we had

10、 the good judgment to argue a case and then not self-destruct, George Bush was just a little further away from the White House and a little closer to private life.Tonight, I salute Governor Michael Dukakis.He has run - He has run a well-managed and a dignified campaign.No matter how tired or how tri

11、ed, he always resisted the temptation to stoop to demagoguery.Ive watched a good mind fast at work, with steel nerves, guiding his campaign out of the crowded field without appeal to the worst in us.Ive watched his perspective grow as his environment has expanded.Ive seen his toughne and tenacity cl

12、ose up.I know his commitment to public service.Mike Dukakis parents were a doctor and a teacher; my parents a maid, a beautician, and a janitor.Theres a great gap between Brookline, Maachusetts and Haney Street in the Fieldcrest Village housing projects in Greenville, South Carolina.He studied law;

13、I studied theology.There are differences of religion, region, and race; differences in experiences and perspectives.But the genius of America is that out of the many we become one.Providence has enabled our paths to intersect.His foreparents came to America on immigrant ships; my foreparents came to

14、 America on slave ships.But whatever the original ships, were in the same boat tonight.Our ships could pa in the night - if we have a false sense of independence - or they could collide and crash.We would lose our paengers.We can seek a high reality and a greater good.Apart, we can drift on the brok

15、en pieces of Reagonomics, satisfy our baser instincts, and exploit the fears of our people.At our highest, we can call upon noble instincts and navigate this veel to safety.The greater good is the common good.As Jesus said, Not My will, but Thine be done. It was his way of saying theres a higher goo

16、d beyond personal comfort or position.The good of our Nation is at stake.Its commitment to working men and women, to the poor and the vulnerable, to the many in the world.With so many guided miiles, and so much misguided leadership, the stakes are exceedingly high.Our choice? Full participation in a

17、 democratic government, or more abandonment and neglect.And so this night, we choose not a false sense of independence, not our capacity to survive and endure.Tonight we choose interdependency, and our capacity to act and unite for the greater good.Common good is finding commitment to new priorities

18、 to expansion and inclusion.A commitment to expanded participation in the Democratic Party at every level.A commitment to a shared national campaign strategy and involvement at every level.A commitment to new priorities that insure that hope will be kept alive.A common ground commitment to a legisla

19、tive agenda for empowerment, for the John Conyers bill - universal, on-site, same-day registration everywhere.A commitment to D.C.statehood and empowerment - D.C.deserves statehood.A commitment to economic set-asides, commitment to the Dellums bill for comprehensive sanctions against South Africa.A

20、shared commitment to a common direction.Common ground.Easier said than done.Where do you find common ground? At the point of challenge.This campaign has shown that politics need not be marketed by politicians, packaged by pollsters and pundits.Politics can be a moral arena where people come together

21、 to find common ground.We find common ground at the plant gate that closes on workers without notice.We find common ground at the farm auction, where a good farmer loses his or her land to bad loans or diminishing markets.Common ground at the school yard where teachers cannot get adequate pay, and s

22、tudents cannot get a scholarship, and cant make a loan.Common ground at the hospital admitting room, where somebody tonight is dying because they cannot afford to go upstairs to a bed thats empty waiting for someone with insurance to get sick.We are a better nation than that.We must do better.Common

23、 ground.What is leadership if not present help in a time of crisis? And so I met you at the point of challenge.In Jay, Maine, where paper workers were striking for fair wages; in Greenville, Iowa, where family farmers struggle for a fair price; in Cleveland, Ohio, where working women seek comparable

24、 worth; in McFarland, California, where the children of Hispanic farm workers may be dying from poisoned land, dying in clusters with cancer; in an AIDS hospice in Houston, Texas, where the sick support one another, too often rejected by their own parents and friends.Common ground.America is not a b

25、lanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.When I was a child growing up in Greenville, South Carolina and grandmamma could not afford a blanket, she didnt complain and we did not freeze.Instead she took pieces of old cloth - patches, wool, silk, gabardine, crockersack - only patches, barely

26、 good enough to wipe off your shoes with.But they didnt stay that way very long.With sturdy hands and a strong cord, she sewed them together into a quilt, a thing of beauty and power and culture.Now, Democrats, we must build such a quilt.Farmers, you seek fair prices and you are right - but you cann

27、ot stand alone.Your patch is not big enough.Workers, you fight for fair wages, you are right - but your patch labor is not big enough.Women, you seek comparable worth and pay equity, you are right - but your patch is not big enough.Women, mothers, who seek Head Start, and day care and prenatal care

28、on the front side of life, relevant jail care and welfare on the back side of life, you are right - but your patch is not big enough.Students, you seek scholarships, you are right - but your patch is not big enough.Blacks and Hispanics, when we fight for civil rights, we are right - but our patch is

29、 not big enough.Gays and lesbians, when you fight against discrimination and a cure for AIDS, you are right - but your patch is not big enough.Conservatives and progreives, when you fight for what you believe, right wing, left wing, hawk, dove, you are right from your point of view, but your point o

30、f view is not enough.But dont despair.Be as wise as my grandmamma.Pull the patches and the pieces together, bound by a common thread.When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground, well have the power to bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our Nation.We, the

31、 people, can win.We stand at the end of a long dark night of reaction.We stand tonight united in the commitment to a new direction.For almost eight years weve been led by those who view social good coming from private interest, who view public life as a means to increase private wealth.They have bee

32、n prepared to sacrifice the common good of the many to satisfy the private interests and the wealth of a few.We believe in a government thats a tool of our democracy in service to the public, not an instrument of the aristocracy in search of private wealth.We believe in government with the consent o

33、f the governed, of, for and by the people. We must now emerge into a new day with a new direction.Reaganomics: Based on the belief that the rich had too much money sic - too little money and the poor had too much.Thats claic Reaganomics.They believe that the poor had too much money and the rich had

34、too little money,- so they engaged in reverse Robin Hood - took from the poor, gave to the rich, paid for by the middle cla.We cannot stand four more years of Reaganomics in any version, in any disguise.How do I document that case? Seven years later, the richest 1 percent of our society pays 20 perc

35、ent le in taxes.The poorest 10 percent pay 20 percent more: Reaganomics.Reagan gave the rich and the powerful a multibillion-dollar party.Now the party is over.He expects the people to pay for the damage.I take this principal position, convention, let us not raise taxes on the poor and the middle-cl

36、a, but those who had the party, the rich and the powerful, must pay for the party.I just want to take common sense to high places.Were spending one hundred and fifty billion dollars a year defending Europe and Japan 43 years after the war is over.We have more troops in Europe tonight than we had sev

37、en years ago.Yet the threat of war is ever more remote.Germany and Japan are now creditor nations; that means theyve got a surplus.We are a debtor nation - means we are in debt.Let them share more of the burden of their own defense.Use some of that money to build decent housing.Use some of that mone

38、y to educate our children.Use some of that money for long-term health care.Use some of that money to wipe out these slums and put America back to work! I just want to take common sense to high places.If we can bail out Europe and Japan; if we can bail out Continental Bank and Chrysler - and Mr.Iacoc

39、ca, make sic 8,000 dollars an hour - we can bail out the family farmer.I just want to make common sense.It does not make sense to close down six hundred and fifty thousand family farms in this country while importing food from abroad subsidized by the U.S.Government.Lets make sense.It does not make

40、sense to be escorting all our tankers up and down the Persian Gulf paying $2.50 for every one dollar worth of oil we bring out, while oil wells are capped in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.I just want to make sense.Leadership must meet the moral challenge of its day.Whats the moral challenge of our

41、day? We have public accommodations.We have the right to vote.We have open housing.Whats the fundamental challenge of our day? It is to end economic violence.Plant closings without notice - economic violence.Even the greedy do not profit long from greed - economic violence.Most poor people are not la

42、zy.They are not black.They are not brown.They are mostly White and female and young.But whether White, Black or Brown, a hungry babys belly turned inside out is the same color - color it pain; color it hurt; color it agony.Most poor people are not on welfare.Some of them are illiterate and cant read

43、 the want-ad sections.And when they can, they cant find a job that matches the addre.They work hard everyday.I know.I live amongst them.Im one of them.I know they work.Im a witne.They catch the early bus.They work every day.They raise other peoples children.They work everyday. They clean the streets

44、.They work everyday.They drive dangerous cabs.They work everyday.They change the beds you slept in in these hotels last night and cant get a union contract.They work everyday.No, no, they are not lazy! Someone must defend them because its right, and they cannot speak for themselves.They work in hosp

45、itals.I know they do.They wipe the bodies of those who are sick with fever and pain.They empty their bedpans.They clean out their commodes.No job is beneath them, and yet when they get sick they cannot lie in the bed they made up every day.America, that is not right.We are a better Nation than that.

46、We are a better Nation than that.We need a real war on drugs.You cant just say no. Its deeper than that.You cant just get a palm reader or an astrologer.Its more profound than that.We are spending a hundred and fifty billion dollars on drugs a year.Weve gone from ignoring it to focusing on the child

47、ren.Children cannot buy a hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of drugs a year; a few high-profile athletes - athletes are not laundering a hundred and fifty billion dollars a year - bankers are.I met the children in Watts, who, unfortunately, in their despair, their grapes of hope have become ra

48、isins of despair, and theyre turning on each other and theyre self-destructing.But I stayed with them all night long.I wanted to hear their case.They said, Jee Jackson, as you challenge us to say no to drugs, youre right; and to not sell them, youre right; and not use these guns, youre right. (And b

49、y the way, the promise of CETA Comprehensive Employment and Training Act; they displaced CETA - they did not replace CETA.) We have neither jobs nor houses nor services nor training - no way out.Some of us take drugs as anesthesia for our pain.Some take drugs as a way of pleasure, good short-term pleasure and long-term pain.Some sell drugs to make money. Its wrong, we know, but you ne