美国经典演讲100篇
篇一：美国经典演讲
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? ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:1984 DNC Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:We Shall Overcome ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Shuttle’’Challenger’’Disaster Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Checkers ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:I Have a Dream ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Civil Rights Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:A Time to Break Silence-Beyond Vietnam ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:1988 DNC Keynote Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Atoms for Peace ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:The Truman Doctrine ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:First Inaugural Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:The Great Arsenal of Democracy ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Acres of Diamonds ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:The Great Silent Majority ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Farewell Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:A Crisis of Confidence ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:1992 DNC Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Cambodian Incursion Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Black Power ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Chappaquiddick ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:40th Anniversary of D-Day Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Presidential Nomination Acceptance.. ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:The Marshall Plan ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:A Whisper of AIDS ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:1988 DNC Address(下) ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:I’ve Been to the Mountaintop ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Statement on the Articles of Impeachment ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:1984 DNC Keynote Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Houston Ministerial Association Speech ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:The Ballot or the Bullet ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:1976 DNC Keynote Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Inaugural Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Television News Coverage ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Against Imperialism ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:The Four Freedoms ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:American University Commencement Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:First Fireside Chat
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? ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:A Time for Choosing ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Ich bin ein Berliner ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Duty, Honor, Country ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Remarks on the Assassination of MLKing ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Message to the Grassroots ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Address on Taking the Oath of Office ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech... ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:1980 DNC Address ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Statement to the Senate Judiciary... ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Television and the Public Interest ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Presidential Nomination ... ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Religious Belief and Public Morality ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Vice-Presidential Nomination... ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Truth and Tolerance in America ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:The Great Society ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:1988 DNC Address(上) ·美国经典英文演讲100篇:Brandenburg Gate Address
篇二：美国经典英文演讲 100篇 a whisper of aids
英语演讲40.Mary Fisher - A Whisper of AIDS
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40.Mary Fisher - A Whisper of AIDS
Less than three months ago at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift
the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV and AIDS. I have come tonight to bring our silence to an end. I bear a message of challenge, not selfcongratulation.
I want your attention, not your applause.
I would never have asked to be HIV positive, but I believe that in all things there is a purpose.
and I stand before you and before the nation gladly. The reality of AIDS is brutally clear. Two
hundred thousand Americans are dead or dying. A million more are infected. Worldwide, forty
million, sixty million, or a hundred million infections will be counted in the coming few years.
But despite science and research, White House meetings, and congressional hearings, despite
good intentions and bold initiatives, campaign slogans, and hopeful promises, it is despite
it all the epidemic which is winning tonight.
In the context of an election year, I ask you, here in this great hall, or listening in the quiet of
your home, to recognize that AIDS virus is not a political creature. It does not care whether
you are Democrat or Republican. it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or
female, gay or straight, young or old.
Tonight, I represent an AIDS community whose members have been reluctantly drafted from
every segment of American society. Though I am white and a mother, I am one
with a black
infant struggling with tubes in a Philadelphia hospital. Though I am female and contracted this
disease in marriage and enjoy the warm support of my family, I am one with the lonely gay
man sheltering a flickering candle from the cold wind of his family’s rejection.
This is not a distant threat. It is a present danger. The rate of infection is increasing fastest
among women and children. Largely unknown a decade ago, AIDS is the third leading killer of
young adult Americans today. But it won’t be third for long, because unlike other diseases,
this one travels. Adolescents don’t give each other cancer or heart disease because they
believe they are in love, but HIV is different. and we have helped it along. We have killed each
other with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our silence.
We may take refuge in our stereotypes, but we cannot hide there long, because HIV asks only
one thing of those it attacks. Are you human? And this is the right question. Are you human?
Because people with HIV have not entered some alien state of being. They are human. They
have not earned cruelty, and they do not deserve meanness. They don’t benefit from being
isolated or treated as outcasts. Each of them is exactly what God made: a person. not evil,
deserving of our judgment. not victims, longing for our pity people, ready for support and
worthy of compassion.
My call to you, my Party, is to take a public stand, no less compassionate than that of the President and Mrs. Bush. They have embraced me and my family in memorable ways. In the place of judgment, they have shown affection. In difficult
moments, they have raised our spirits. In the darkest hours, I have seen them reaching not only to
me, but also to my parents, armed with that stunning grief and special grace that comes only to parents who
have themselves leaned too long over the bedside of a dying child.
With the President’s leadership, much good has been done. Much of the good has gone
unheralded, and as the President has insisted, much remains to be done. But we do the President’s cause no good if we praise the American family but ignore a virus that destroys it.
We must be consistent if we are to be believed. We cannot love justice and ignore prejudice,
love our children and fear to teach them. Whatever our role as parent or policymaker, we
must act as eloquently as we speak else we have no integrity. My call to the nation is a plea
for awareness. If you believe you are safe, you are in danger. Because I was not hemophiliac,
I was not at risk. Because I was not gay, I was not at risk. Because I did not inject drugs, I was not at risk.
My father has devoted much of his lifetime guarding against another holocaust. He is pa
rt ofthe generation who heard Pastor Nemoellor come out of the Nazi death camps to say,
“They came after the Jews, and I was not a Jew, so, I did not protest. They came after the
trade unionists, and I was not a trade unionist, so, I did not protest. Then they came after the
Roman Catholics, and I was not a Roman Catholic, so, I did not protest. Then they came after
me, and there was no one left to protest.”
The The lesson history teaches is this: If you believe you are safe, you are at risk. If you do
not see this killer stalking your children, look again. There is no family or community, no race
or religion, no place left in America that is safe. Until we genuinely embrace this message, we
are a nation at risk.
Tonight, HIV marches resolutely toward AIDS in more than a million American homes, littering
its pathway with the bodies of the young young men, young women, young parents, and
young children. One of the families is mine. If it is true that HIV inevitably turns to AIDS, then
my children will inevitably turn to orphans. My family has been a rock of support.
My 84yearold father, who has pursued the healing of the nations, will not accept the premise that he cannot heal his daughter. My mother refuses to be broken. She still calls at midnight
to tell wonderful jokes that make me laugh. Sisters and friends, and my brother Phillip, whose birthday is today, all
have helped carry me over the hardest places. I am blessed, richly and deeply blessed, to have such a family.
But not all of you But not all of you have been so blessed. You are HIV positive, but dare not
say it. You have lost loved ones, but you dare not whisper the word AIDS. You weep
silently. You grieve alone. I have a message for you.
It is not you who should feel shame. It is we we who tolerate ignorance and practice
prejudice, we who have taught you to fear. We must lift our shroud of silence, making it safe
for you to reach out for compassion. It is our task to seek safety for our children, not
in quiet denial, but in effective action.
Someday our children will be grown. My son Max, now four, will take the measure of his
mother. My son Zachary, now two, will sort through his memories. I may not be here to
hear their judgments, but I know already what I hope they are. I want my children to know that
their mother was not a victim. She was a messenger.
I do not want them to think, as I once did, that courage is the absence of fear. I want
them to know that courage is the strength to act wisely when most we are afraid. I want
them to have the courage to step forward when called by their nation or their Party and give leadership,
no matter what the personal cost.
I ask no more of you than I ask of myself or of my children. To the millions of you who are
grieving, who are frightened, who have suffered the ravages of AIDS firsthand: Have courage,
and you will find support. To the millions who are strong, I issue the plea: Set aside prejudice
and politics to make room for compassion and sound policy.
To my children, I make this pledge: I will not give in, Zachary, because I draw my courage
from you. Your silly giggle gives me hope. your gentle prayers give me strength. and you, my
child, give me the reason to say to America, "You are at risk."
And I will not rest, Max, until I have done all I can
to make your world safe. I will seek a place where intimacy is not the
prelude to suffering. I will not hurry to leave you, my children, but when I go, I pray that
you will not suffer shame on my account.
To all within the sound of my voice, I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of
grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word "AIDS" when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.
God bless the children, and God bless us all. Good night.
篇三：美国经典英文演讲100篇Address_on_Taking_the_Oath_of_Office
美国经典英文演讲100篇:
Address on Taking the Oath of Office
delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington,
D.C.
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.]
[Oath of Office administered by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger] Mr. Chief Justice, my dear friends, my fellow Americans:
The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and by every President under the Constitution. But I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances never before experienced by Americans. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
Therefore, I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech -- just a little straight talk among friends. And I intend it to be the first of many.
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers. And I hope that such prayers will also be the first of many. If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I
gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman -- my dear wife -- as I begin this very difficult job.
I have not sought this enormous responsibility, but I will not shirk it. Those who nominated and confirmed me as Vice President were my friends and are my friends. They were of both parties, elected by all the people and acting under the Constitution in their name. It is only fitting then that I should pledge to them and to you that I will be the President of all the people.
Thomas Jefferson said the people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. And down the years, Abraham Lincoln
renewed this American article of faith asking, "Is there any better way or equal hope in the world?"
I intend, on Monday next, to request of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate the privilege of appearing before the Congress to share with my former colleagues and with you, the American people, my views on the
priority business of the Nation and to solicit your views and their views. And may I say to the Speaker and the others, if I could meet with you right after these remarks, I would appreciate it.
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
To the peoples and the governments of all friendly nations, and I hope that could encompass the whole world, I pledge an uninterrupted and sincere search for peace. America will remain strong and united, but its strength will remain dedicated to the safety and sanity of the entire family of man, as well as to our own precious freedom. I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though stained, is unbroken at home and abroad.
In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Our Constitution works. Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy. As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate.
In the beginning, I asked you to pray for me. Before closing, I ask again your prayers, for Richard Nixon and for his family. May our former President, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself. May God bless and comfort his wonderful wife and daughters, whose love and loyalty will forever be a shining legacy to all who bear the lonely burdens of the White House. I can only guess at those burdens, although I have witnessed at close hand the tragedies that befell three Presidents and the lesser trials of others.
With all the strength and all the good sense I have gained from life, with all the confidence of my family, my friends, and my dedicated staff impart to me, and with the good will of countless Americans I have encountered in recent visits to 40 States, I now solemnly
reaffirm my promise I made to you last December 6: To uphold the Constitution; to do what is right as God gives me to see the right; and to do the very best I can for America.
God helping me, I will not let you down.
Thank you.