奥巴马的励志故事英语

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奥巴马的励志故事英语1

it is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at yale, especially on the

occasion of the 300th anniversary. i have had so many memories of my time here, and

as nick was speaking i thought about how i ended up at yale law school. and it tells

a little bit about how much progress we’ve made.

what i think most about when i think of yale is not just the politically charged

atmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that i received. it was at

yale that i began work that has been at the core of what i have cared about ever since.

i began working with new haven legal services representing children. and i studied

child development, abuse and neglect at the yale new haven hospital and the child

study center. i was lucky enough to receive a civil rights internship with marian

wright edelman at the children’s defense fund, where i went to work after i graduated.

those experiences fueled in me a passion to work for the benefit of children,

particularly the most vulnerable. now, looking back, there is no way that i could have predicted what path my life

would have taken. i didn’t sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, i think

i’ll graduate and then i’ll go to work at the children’s defense fund, and then

the impeachment inquiry, and nixon retired or resigns, i’ll go to arkansas. i didn’

t think like that. i was taking each day at a time. but, i’ve been very fortunate because i’ve always had an idea in my mind about

what i thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose. a set of values

and beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacherous

sea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that others say about what l should

care about and believe in. a passion to succeed at what l thought was important and

children have always provided that lone star, that guiding light. because l have that

absolute conviction that every child, especially in this, the most blessed of nations

that has ever existed on the face of earth, that every child deserves the opportunity

to live up to his or her god-given potential. but you know that belief and conviction-it may make for a personal mission

statement, but standing alone, not translated into action, it means very little to

anyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those concerns.when i was thinking about running for the united states senate-which was such

an enormous decision to make, one i never could have dreamed that i would have been

making when i washere on campus-i visited a school in new york city and i met a young woman, who

was a star athlete. and it doesn’t mean that once having made that choice you will always succeed.

in fact, you won’t. there are setbacks and you will experience difficult

disappointments. you will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just be knocked

out of you. but if you carry with you the values and beliefs that you can make a

difference in your own life, first and foremost, and then in the lives of others.

you can get back up, you can keep going. but it is also important, as i have found, not to take yourself too seriously,

because after all, every one of us here today, none of us is deserving of full credit.

i think every day of the blessings my birth gave me without any doing of my own. i

chose neither my family nor my country, but they as much as anything i’ve ever done,

determined my course. you have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that it was

the right thing to do and because it gave something back to you. you have dared to

care.well, dare to care to fight for equal justice for all, for equal pay for women,

against hate crimes and bigotry. dare to care about public schools without qualified

teachers or adequate resources. dare to care about protecting our environment. dare

to care about the 10 million children in our country who lack health insurance. dare

to care about the one and a half million children who have a parent in jail. the seven

million people who suffer from hiv/aids. and thank you for caring enough to demand

that our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world with

hiv/aids, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further. and so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. dare to help

make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics. some have

called you the generation of choice. you’ve been raised with multiple choice tests,

multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles. you’ve grown up

choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to

people in prior generations. you’ve been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, to

make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought possible. and i think

as i look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not only

freedom, but personal responsibility. the social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive

story: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides,

drunk driving deaths being down.it is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather it’s a silent

conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our

popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism.but as many have said before and as vaclav havel has said to memorably, “it cannot

suffice just to invent new machines, new regulations and new institutions. it is

necessary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our

existence on this earth and of our deeds.” and i think we are called on to reject,

in this time of blessings that we enjoy, those who will tear us apart and tear us

down and instead to liberate our god-given spirit, by being willing to dare to dream

of a better world. during my campaign, when times were tough and days were long i used to think about

the example of harriet tubman, a heroic new yorker, a 19th century moses, who risked

her life to bring hundreds of slaves to freedom. she would say to those who she gathered

up in the south where she kept going back year after year from the safety of auburn,

new york, that no matter what happens, they had to keep going. if they heard shouts

behind them, they had to keep going. if they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep

going to freedom. well, those aren’t the risks we face. it is more the silence and

apathy and indifference that dogs our heels.thirty-two years ago, i spoke at my own graduation from wellesley, where i did

call on my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability to

effect change and instead to embrace the idea that the goal of education should be human liberation and the

freedom to practice with all the skill of our being the art of making possible. thank you and god bless you all.

奥巴马的励志故事英语篇2

this is the text of earl spencers tribute to his sister at her funeral. there

is some very deep, powerful and heartfelt sentiment. would that those at whom it is

aimed would take heed. the versions posted on several news services had minor errors.

this is precisely as it was deliverd. i stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country

in mourning before a world in shock. we are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to diana but rather

in our need to do so. for such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking

part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually

met her, feel that they, too, lost someone close to them in the early hours of sunday

morning. it is a more remarkable tribute to diana than i can ever hope to offer her

today. today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even

though god granted you but half a life. we will all feel cheated, always, that you

were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along

at all. only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want

you to know that life without you is very, very difficult. we have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of

the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength

to move forward. there is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory. there is no need to do

so. you stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen

as a saint. indeed to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of

your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humor with the laugh that bent you

double, your joy for life transmitted wherever you took your smile, and the sparkle

in those unforgettable eyes, your boundless energy which you could barely contain.but your greatest gift was your intuition, and it was a gift you used wisely.

this is what underpinned all your wonderful attributes. and if we look to analyze

what it was about you that had such a wide appeal, we find it in your instinctive

feel for what was really important in all our lives. without your god-given sensitivity, we would be immersed in greater ignorance

at the anguish of aids and hiv sufferers, the plight of the homeless, the isolation

of lepers, the random destruction of land mines. diana explained to me once that it

was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with

her constituency of the rejected. the world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for her

vulnerability, whilst admiring her for her honesty. the last time i saw diana was

on july the first, her birthday, in london, when typically she was not taking time

to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honor at a fund-raising

charity evening. she sparkled of course, but i would rather cherish the days i spent with her in

march when she came to visit me and my children in our home in south africa. i am

proud of the fact that apart from when she was on public display meeting president

mandela, we managed to contrive to stop the ever-present paparazzi from getting a

single picture of her. that meant a lot to her. these were days i will always treasure. it was as if wed been transported back

to our childhood, when we spent such an enormous amount of time together, the two

youngest in the family.fundamentally she hadnt changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as

a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our

parents homes with me at weekends. it is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength

that despite the most bizarre life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact,

true to herself. there is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this

time. she talked endlessly of getting away from england, mainly because of the treatment she

received at the hands of the newspapers. i dont think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered

at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring

her down. it is baffling. my own, and only, explanation is that genuine goodness is

threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. it is a point to remember that of all the ironies about diana, perhaps the greatest

was this; that a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the

end, the most hunted person of the modern age. she would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys william

and harry from a similar fate. and i do this here, diana, on your behalf. we will

not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful

despair.beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, i pledge that we, your blood

family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you

were steering these two exceptional young men, so that their souls are not simply

immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned. we fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born, and will always

respect and encourage them in their royal role. but we, like you, recognize the need

for them to experience as many different aspects of life as possible, to arm them

spiritually and emotionally for the years ahead. i know you would have expected

nothing less from us.