奥巴马在亚利桑那州立大学毕业典礼上的演讲.docx

1、奥巴马在亚利桑那州立大学毕业典礼上的演讲奥巴马在亚利桑那州立大学毕业典礼上的演讲奥巴马在亚利桑那州立大学毕业典礼上的演讲今天，我想告诉你们，XX届的毕业生们，虽然你们取得了生命中一个重要的里程碑，虽然你和你们的家人都理所应当为此感到自豪，你们却不能依赖过去的荣誉。你们不能停滞不前。因为今晚我们聚集在这里，面对的是一个困难重重的时期，不管是对美国还是整个世界来说，都是如此。对于你们许多人来说，这些挑战也和你们的切身利益有关。也许你还在找工作，也许你还在苦苦思考在这个经济破败的时期，从事什么职业才比较有意义。现在，面对这些挑战，很容易落入最近几年很是流行的成功秘诀的俗套。这个套路大概是这样的：你受

2、的教育告诉你要追逐一切功名利禄;你想方设法要进入“名人录”或者“100强”;你一门心思要赚大钱，想象着自己的高级办公室该有多大;你担心自己没有一个响亮的头衔，没有一辆炫目的轿车。这就是我们日复一日收到的信息，也是在我们的文化中早已根深蒂固的信息通过物质财富的占有，通过仅仅为了一己之私而进行的无情竞争这些就是你衡量成功与否的标准。当然，你可以走这条路而且对有些人来说也确实可以走通。但是，在国家历史上这个关键时刻，在这个困难时期，我要说，这条路无法带你走到目的地;它只能表明你缺乏进取之心事实上，重表面而轻实质，重名气而轻品质，重短期利益而轻长远成就，这样的风气正需要你们这一代人去结束。各位同学，现

3、在，我想就这种过时的、陈腐的、以自我为中心的人生观再强调两点。首先，它让你无法分清什么才是真正重要的东西，而且会让你的价值观、做人原则和责任心大打折扣。关于成功的陈腐人生观的第二个问题就是：过多地看重成功的外在标记会使人骄傲自满。它会使你变得懒惰。我们过多地把那些外在的、物质的东西看成是我们取得成绩的标记，虽然我们内心明白我们并没有尽力;我们绕开了那些虽然困难但却必须去做的工作;面对时代的挑战，我们没有奋起迎接，而是选择了退缩。问题是，在这个高度竞争的新时代，我们中没有任何人没有任何人能够付得起自满的代价。因此，毕业生们，显而易见我们需要稍微改变一下做事方式了。就个人的生活而言，你们需要不停地

4、适应一个时刻在改变的经济环境。你们一生中可能会从事不止一种工作或者一种事业;会不停地获得新的技能甚至新的学位;随着新的机遇的出现，你们还会不停地冒险。我们目前面临的挑战，许多都是前所未有的。我们需要你们这样的年轻人行动起来。请允许我澄清一下，我所说的“年轻”，并不是指你们出生证明上的日期。我所谈的是一种生活态度一种精神和心灵的状况;愿意追随自己的激情，不管它是否能带来名和利;愿意质疑传统的价值观，重新思考陈旧的教条;蔑视所有代表名声、地位的传统标志，转而投身于对自己有意义的事物，能帮助他人的事物，能改变这个世界的事物。正是这种精神，使一群爱国者向一个帝国叫板，开始了我们称之为美国的民主试验，他

5、们那时的年龄并不比你们中的绝大多数人大多少。正是这种精神，使年轻的先驱者走向西部，走向亚利桑那和更远的地方。正是这种精神，促使年轻的妇女们 争取选举权，促使一位30岁的黑奴通过“地下铁路”组织逃向自由，促使一位名叫塞萨尔的年轻人全力帮助农场工人，促使一位26岁的牧师为了正义发起了一场抵制公共汽车的运动。它使得消防队员和警察们在生命的黄金时期冲向熊熊燃烧的双子塔的楼梯;也使得全国的年轻人扔下手中的工作前来支援遭受洪灾的新奥尔良人。它使得两个年轻人休利 特与帕卡德在车库中组建了一个公司，改变了我们生活和工作的方式;使得实验室里的科学家们、咖啡厅里的小说家们默默无闻地工作，直到最终成功地改变了我们看

6、待这个世界的方式。这就是美国的伟大故事：这些像你们一样的年轻人，追随自己的激情，决意用自己的方式迎接时代的挑战。他们这样做不是为了金钱。他们没有响亮的头衔他们是奴隶、牧师、学生、市民。他们中没有一个人得到过荣誉学位。但他们改变了历史的进程你们也可以，亚利桑那大学的同学们!你们也可以，XX届的毕业生们!你们也可以。今晚照镜子时，你在镜中看到的也许是一个不知毕业后该做什么的人。或许你自己是这么看的，但当一个迷茫的孩子看着你时，他看到的也许是一个良师益友;一个困居家中的老人看到的也许是生命的希望;你们当地收容所里那些无家可归的人看到的也许是一个朋友。他们不会去考虑你银行账户里有多少钱，你在工作上是否

7、担任重要职务，或者你在镇里是否很有名气他们只知道你是一个关心他们的人，是一个改变他们生活的人。所以，XX届的毕业生们，这才是打造生命之作的真实含义它需要日常的辛勤工作，需要众多的个人行为，需要长期甚至是一生积累下来的大大小小的选择，它是我们留下的永久的遗产。如果你忘记这一点，就请回头看看历史。托马斯潘恩曾经是一个失败的紧身衣裁缝，一个失败的老师，一个失败的税务员，但他最后却名垂青史，他的那本名叫常识的小书引发了一场革命。朱莉娅蔡尔德直到将近五十岁时才出版了她的第一部烹饪书。桑德斯上校直到六十多岁才开办了第一家肯德基餐厅。他们中的每一个人，在生命中的某一时刻，都没有响亮的头衔和显赫的地位值得炫耀

8、。但他们有激情，他们追随着这种激情，不管这激情把他们带到哪里;而且他们每一步都不辞辛苦，扎实工作。正直无私的奉献，从不考虑自己能从中得到什么这种行为也会产生涟漪效应这种效应能鼓舞家庭和社会生活;能创造机遇，繁荣经济;能影响那些在世界上被人遗忘的角落里生活的人们，让他们从你们这些具有奉献精神的青年的脸上，看到美国真正的面貌我们的力量，我们的美德，我们的多样性，我们的耐力，我们的理想。祝贺你们，XX届的毕业生们!上帝保佑你们!上帝保佑美利坚合众国。奥巴马就职演讲稿3篇barack obamas inaugural address my fellow citizens: i stand here t

9、oday humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. i thank president bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. forty-four americans have now taken

10、 the presidential oath. the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. at these moments, america has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high off

11、ice, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents. so it has been. so it must be with this generation of americans. that we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. our nation is at war, against a far-reaching work of

12、violence and hatred. our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. our health care is too costly; our sc

13、hools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our pla. these are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear

14、that americas decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights. today i say to you that the challenges we face are real. they are serious and they are many. they will not be met easily or in a short span of time. but know this, america - they will be met. 您正在查看英语演讲稿奥巴马就职演讲 o

15、n this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. on this day, we e to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics. we remain a young natio

16、n, but in the words of scripture, the time has e to set aside childish things. the time has e to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the god-given promise that all are equal, all ar

17、e free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness. in reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. it must be earned. our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. it has not been the path for the faint-hearted

18、- for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things - some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and fre

19、edom. for us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. for us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the west; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth. for us, they fought and died, in places like concord and gettysburg; normandy

20、 and khe sanh. time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. they saw america as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction. this is the journe

21、y we continue today. we remain the m您正在查看英语演讲稿奥巴马就职演讲 ost prosperous, powerful nation on earth. our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. our capacity rem

22、ains undiminished. but our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed. starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking america. for everywhere we look, there is work to be

23、 done. the state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. we will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our merce and bind us together. we will restore science to its

24、rightful place, and wield technologys wonders to raise health cares quality and lower its cost. we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. and we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. all this we can

25、 do. and all this we will do. now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. their memories are short. for they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is jo

26、ined to mon purpose, and necessity to courage. what the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. the question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but w

27、hether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. w您正在查看英语演讲稿奥巴马就职演讲 here the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. where the answer is no, programs will end. and those of us who manage the publics dollars will be held t

28、o account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government. nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. its power to generate wealth and expand freed

29、om is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. the success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the r

30、each of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our mon good. as for our mon defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarce

31、ly imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expediences sake. and so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest

32、capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that america is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more. recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and munism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. they understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. inst