名校励志英语演讲 136:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(3)
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. 我去那儿是因
名校励志英语演讲 137:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(4)
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 comp
名校励志英语演讲 138:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(5)
They lack the freedom to choose their lifes path. Theyre imprisoned by circumstances of poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and war. 他们没有选择人生道路的自由。他们被贫穷、无知、偏执、疾病、饥饿、
名校励志英语演讲 139:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(6)
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. 在此我要感谢那些呼吁我们国家给予全世界的艾
名校励志英语演讲 140:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(7)
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,
名校励志英语演讲 141:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(8)
Well, I admit there is enough truth in that critique to justify feeling disconnected and alienated. But at bottom, thats a personal cop-out and a national peril. Political conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity and responsibili
名校励志英语演讲 142:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(9)
It is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather its a silent conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism. 在一个大众文化和高消费的国度
名校励志英语演讲 143:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(10)
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
名校励志英语演讲 144:跨越物质的藩篱 让世界今非昔比(1)
Thank you, President Crow, for that extremely generous introduction, for your inspired leadership, as well, here at ASU. I want to thank the entire ASU community for the honor of attaching my name to a scholarship program that will help open the door
名校励志英语演讲 145:跨越物质的藩篱 让世界今非昔比(2)
But you've got a fine governor here, and I also know that Janet is now applying her extraordinary talents to serve our entire country as the secretary of homeland security, keeping America safe. And she's doing a great job. 但你们现在拥有另一位
名校励志英语演讲 146:跨越物质的藩篱 让世界今非昔比(3)
But more than that, I come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I heartily concur. I come to affirm that once titled, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. T
名校励志英语演讲 147:跨越物质的藩篱 让世界今非昔比(4)
Other classes have received their diplomas in times of trial and upheaval, when the very foundations of our lives, the old order has been shaken, the old ideas and institutions have crumbled, and a new generation is called upon to remake the world. 而
名校励志英语演讲 148:跨越物质的藩篱 让世界今非昔比(5)
Maybe you've got student loansno, you definitely have student loans. Or credit card debts. And you're wondering how you'll ever pay them off. Maybe you've got a family to raise. And you are wondering how you'll ensure that your children have the same
名校励志英语演讲 149:跨越物质的藩篱 让世界今非昔比(6)
But at this critical juncture in our nation's history, at this difficult time, let me suggest that such an approach won't get you where you want to go. It displays a poverty of ambition, that in fact the elevation of appearance over substance, of cel
名校励志英语演讲 150:跨越物质的藩篱 让世界今非昔比(7)
In contrast, the leaders we revere, the businesses and institutions that last, they are not generally the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. The preservation of the union or the d
