第三篇：名人名校励志英语演讲稿dare to compete, dare to care 敢于竞争，勇于关爱---美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿耶鲁大学演讲
dare to compete. dare to care. dare to
dream. dare to love. practice the art of making possible. and no matter what
happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going. 要敢于竞争，敢于关爱，敢于憧憬，大胆去爱！要努力创造奇迹！无论发生什么，即使有人在你背后大声喊叫，也要勇往直前。
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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 was
here on campus-i visited a school in new
york city and i met a young woman, who was a star athlete.
i was there because of billy jean king
promoting an hbo special about women in sports called “dare to compete.” it was
about title ix and how we finally, thanks to government action, provided
opportunities to girls and women in sports.
and although i played not very well at
intramural sports, i have always been a strong supporter of women in sports.
and i was introduced by this young woman, and as i went to shake her hand she
obviously had been reading the newspapers about people saying i should or
shouldn’t run for the
senate. and i was congratulating her on the speech she had just made and she
held onto my hand and she said, “dare to compete, mrs. clinton. dare to
compete.”
i took that to heart because it is hard to
compete sometimes, especially in public ways, when your failures are there for
everyone to see and you don’t know what is going to happen from one day to the next. and yet so
much of life, whether we like to accept it or not, is competing with ourselves
to be the best we can be, being involved in classes or professions or just
life, where we know we are competing with others.
i took her advice and i did compete because
i chose to do so. and the biggest choices that you’ll face in your life will be yours
alone to make. i’m sure you’ll receive good advice. you’re got a great education to go back
and reflect about what is right for you, but you eventually will have to choose
and i hope that you will dare to compete. and by that i don’t mean the kind of cutthroat
competition that is too often characterized by what is driving america today. i
mean the small voice inside you that says to you, you can do it, you can take
this risk, you can take this next step.
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 compare my or your circumstances with
those of the majority of people who’ve ever lived or who are living right now, they too often are born
knowing too well what their futures will be. they lack the freedom to choose
their life’s path. they’re imprisoned by circumstances of
poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and war.
so, dare to compete, yes, but maybe even more
difficult, dare to care. dare to care about people who need our help to succeed
and fulfill their own lives. there are so many out there and
sometimes all it takes is the simplest of
gestures or helping hands and many of you understand that already. i know that
the numbers of graduates in the last 20 years have worked in community
organizations, have tutored, have committed themselves to religious activities.
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 i’ll also add, dare enough to care about our political process. you
know, as i go and speak with students i’m impressed so much, not only in formal settings, on campuses, but
with my daughter and her friends, about how much you care, about how willing
you are to volunteer and serve. you may have missed the last wave of the
dot.com revolution, but you’ve understood that the dot.community revolution is there for you
every single day. and you’ve been willing to be part of remarking lives in our community.
and yet, there is a real resistance, a
turning away from the political process. i hope that some of you will be public
servants and will even run for office yourself, not to win a position to make
and impression on your friends at your 20th reunion, but because you understand
how important it is for each of us as citizens to make a commitment to our
democracy.
your generation, the first one born after
the social upheavals of the 60’s and 70’s, in the midst of the technological advances of the 80’s and 90’s, are inheriting an economy, a
society and a government that has yet to understand fully, or even come to
grips with, our rapidly changing world.
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.
community service and religious involvement
being up. but if you look at the area of voting among 18 to 29 year olds, the
numbers tell a far more troubling tale. many of you i know believe that service
and community volunteerism is a better way of solving the issues facing our
country than political engagement, because you believe-choose one of the
following multiples or choose them all-government either can’t understand or won’t make the right choices because of
political pressures, inefficiency, incompetence or big money influence.
well, i admit there is enough truth in that
critique to justify feeling disconnected and alienated. but at bottom, that’s a personal cop-out and a national
peril. political conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity
and responsibility as well as community. americorps and the peace corps exist
because of political decisions. our air, water, land and food will be clean and
safe because of political choices. our ability to cure disease or log onto the
internet have been advanced because of politically determined investments.
ethnic cleansing in kosovo ended because of political leadership. your parents
and grandparents traveled here by means of government built and subsidized
transportation systems. many used gi bills or government loans, as i did, to
attend college.
now, i could, as you might guess, go on and
on, but the point is to remind us all that government is us and each generation
has to stake its claim. and, as stakeholders, you will have to decide whether
or not to make the choice to participate. it is hard and it is, bringing change
in a democracy, particularly now. there’s so much about our modern times that conspire to lower our sights,
to weaken our vision-as individuals and communities and even nations.
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 ha(内容来源好范文网www.91exam.org)d 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.
for after all, our fate is to be free. to
choose competition over apathy, caring over indifference, vision over myopia,
and love over hate.
just as this is a special time in your
lives, it is for me as well because my daughter will be graduating in four
weeks, graduating also from a wonderful place with a great education and
beginning a new life. and as i think about all the parents and grandparents who
are out there, i have a sense of what their feeling. their hearts are leaping
with joy, but it’s hard to
keep tears in check because the presence of our children at a time and place
such as this is really a fulfillment of our own american dreams. well, i
applaud you and all of your love, commitment and hard work, just as i applaud
your daughters and sons for theirs.
and i leave these graduates with the same
message i hope to leave with my graduate. dare to compete. dare to care. dare
to dream. dare to love. practice the art of making possible. and no matter what
happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going.
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