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1、2023年经典英文演讲_36(50) 经典英文演讲_36 President Hatcher, Governor Romney, Senators McNamara and Hart, Congremen Meader and Staebler, and other members of the fine Michigan delegation, members of the graduating cla, my fellow Americans: It is a great pleasure to be here today.This university has been coeducat

2、ional since 1870, but I do not believe it was on the basis of your accomplishments that a Detroit high school girl said (and I quote), In choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or an educational school. Well, we can find both here at Michigan, although p

3、erhaps at different hours.I came out here today very anxious to meet the Michigan student whose father told a friend of mine that his sons education had been a real value.It stopped his mother from bragging about him. I have come today from the turmoil of your capital to the tranquility of your camp

4、us to speak about the future of your country.The purpose of protecting the life of our Nation and preserving the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happine of our people.Our succe in that pursuit is the test of our succe as a Nation. For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent

5、.For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people.The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American

6、civilization. Your imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progre is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth.For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward

7、 the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all.It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.But that is just the beginning. The Great Society is a place where ev

8、ery child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlene.It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the de

9、sire for beauty and the hunger for community.It is a place where man can renew contact with nature.It is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what is adds to the understanding of the race.It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity o

10、f their goods.But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work.It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor. So I want to talk to you today ab

11、out three places where we begin to build the Great Society - in our cities, in our countryside, and in our clarooms. Many of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million Americans - four-fifths of them in urban areas.In the remainder of this century urban p

12、opulation will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes and highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled.So in the next 40 years we must re-build the entire urban United States.Aristotle said: Men come together in cities in order to live

13、, but they remain together in order to live the good life. It is harder and harder to live the good life in American cities today.The catalog of ills is long: there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs.There is not enough housing for our people or transportation for our traf

14、fic.Open land is vanishing and old landmarks are violated.Worst of all expansion is eroding these precious and time honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature.The lo of these values breeds loneline and boredom and indifference. And our society will never be great until our

15、cities are great.Today the frontier of imagination and innovation is inside those cities and not beyond their borders.New experiments are already going on.It will be the task of your generation to make the American city a place where future generations will come, not only to live, but to live the go

16、od life.And I understand that if I stayed here tonight I would see that Michigan students are really doing their best to live the good life. This is the place where the Peace Corps was started. It is inspiring to see how all of you, while you are in this country, are trying so hard to live at the le

17、vel of the people. A second place where we begin to build the Great Society is in our countryside.We have always prided ourselves on being not only America the strong and America the free, but America the beautiful.Today that beauty is in danger.The water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that

18、 we breathe, are threatened with pollution.Our parks are overcrowded, our seashores overburdened.Green fields and dense forests are disappearing. A few years ago we were greatly concerned about the Ugly American. Today we must act to prevent an ugly America. For once the battle is lost, once our nat

19、ural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured.And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted. A third place to build the Great Society is in the clarooms of America.There your childrens lives will be shaped.Our society wil

20、l not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination.We are still far from that goal.Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school.Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of

21、school.Nearly 54 million - more than one quarter of all America - have not even finished high school. Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it.And if we cannot educate todays youth, what will we do in 1970 when element

22、ary school enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million.And college enrollment will increase by more than 3 million. In many places, clarooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated.Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid and many of our p

23、aid teachers are unqualified.So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from.Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.But more clarooms and more teachers are not enough.We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as

24、 it grows in size.This means better training for our teachers.It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor.It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation. These are three of t

25、he central iues of the Great Society.While our Government has many programs directed at those iues, I do not pretend that we have the full answer to those problems.But I do promise this: We are going to aemble the best thought and the broadest knowledge from all over the world to find those answers

26、for America. I intend to establish working groups to prepare a series of White House conferences and meetings - on the cities, on natural beauty, on the quality of education, and on other emerging challenges.And from these meetings and from this inspiration and from these studies we will begin to se

27、t our course toward the Great Society. The solution to these problems does not rest on a maive program in Washington, nor can it rely solely on the strained resources of local authority.They require us to create new concepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the National Capital and the

28、 leaders of local communities. Woodrow Wilson once wrote: Every man sent out from his university should be a man of his Nation as well as a man of his time. Within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost beyond the b

29、ounds of our imagination.For better or for worse, your generation has been appointed by history to deal with those problems and to lead America toward a new age.You have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age.You can help build a society where the demands of morality, and the need

30、s of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the Nation. So, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin? Will you join in the battle *to give every citizen an escape from the cr

31、ushing weight of poverty? Will you join in the battle to make it poible for all nations to live in enduring peace - as neighbors and not as mortal enemies? Will you join in the battle to build the Great Society, to prove that our material progre is only the foundation on which we will build a richer

32、 life of mind and spirit? There are those timid souls who say this battle cannot be won; that we are condemned to a soulle wealth.I do not agree.We have the power to shape the civilization that we want.But we need your will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society. Those who

33、 came to this land sought to build more than just a new country.They sought a new world.So I have come here today to your campus to say that you can make their vision our reality.So let us from this moment begin our work so that in the future men will look back and say: It was then, after a long and weary way, that man turned the exploits of his genius to the full enrichment of his life. Thank you.Good-bye.* 经典英文演讲_36(50) 经典英文演讲_2(50) 经典英文演讲_15(50) 经典英文演讲_30(50) 经典英文演讲_44(50) 经典英文演讲_28(50) 50篇经典英文演讲之50(已注解) 50篇经典英文演讲之28 50篇经典英文演讲之8 50篇经典英文演讲之30