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1、精品文档文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 artof making possible.And no matter whathappens, even ifyou 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。It is s

2、uch 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. Andit tells a little bit about how much progress weve made.What Ithinkmos

3、t about when I thinkof Yale isnot justthe politicallychargedatmosphere and not even justthesuperb legal educationthat I received. It wasat Yale that I began work that has been at the core of what I have cared aboutever since.Ibegan working withNewHaven legalservicesrepresentingchildren.And I studied

4、child development,abuse and neglect atthe Yale NewHaven Hospitaland theChildStudy Center.Iwaslucky enoughtoreceive a civilrightsinternship with Marian Wright Edelman at the Childrens Defense Fund, whereI went to work after I graduated. Those experiences fueled in me a passion towork for the benefit

5、of children, particularly the most vulnerable.Now, looking back, there is no way that I could have predicted what path my.精品文档life would have taken. I didnt sit around the law school, saying, well, youknow, Ithink I ll graduateand then I ll go towork at the Children s DefenseFund, and then the impea

6、chment inquiry, and Nixon retired or resigns, Ill goto Arkansas. I didnt think like that. I was taking each day at a time.But, Ive been very fortunate because Ive always had an idea in my mindabout what I thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose.A set of valuesand beliefsthath

7、ave helped menavigate theshoals,thesometimesvery treacherous sea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that otherssay about what l should care about and believe in. A passion to succeed at whatl thought was important and children have always provided that lone star, thatguidinglight.Becauselha

8、ve thatabsoluteconvictionthateverychild,especially in this, the most blessed of nations that has ever existed on theface of earth, that every child deserves the opportunity to live up to his orher God-given potential.But you know that belief and conviction-it may make for a personal missionstatement

9、, butstanding alone,not translatedintoaction,it means verylittleto anyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those concerns.When Iwas thinkingaboutrunning fortheUnitedStatesSenate-whichwas suchan enormous decision to make, one I never could have dreamed that I would havebeen making when I

10、 was here on campus-I visited a school in New York City andI met a young woman, who was a star athlete. woman, who was a star athlete.I was there because of Billy Jean King promoting an HBO special about women.精品文档in sports called“Dare to compete.” It was about Title IX and how we finally,thanks to

11、government action,provided opportunitiesto girlsand womenin sports.And although I played not very well at intramural sports, I have always beena strongsupporterof womenin sports.And I was introducedby thisyoung woman,and as I went to shake her hand she obviously had been reading the newspapersabout

12、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 handand sh e said,“Dare to compete, Mrs. Clinton. Dare to compete.”I took that to heart because it is hard to compete sometimes, especially inpublic ways, when yo

13、ur failures are there for everyone to see and you dontknow 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

14、 competing with others.I took her advice and I did compete because I chose to do so. And the biggestchoices that youll face in your life will be yours alone to make. Im sureyoullreceivegood advice.Youre got a great educationto go back and reflectabout what is right for you, but you eventually will h

15、ave to choose and I hopethat you will dare to compete. And by that I dont mean the kind of cutthroatcompetition 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.精品文档

16、And itdoesnt meanthatonce havingmadethatchoiceyou willalways succeed.Infact,you wont.There are setbacksandyouwillexperiencedifficultdisappointments. You will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just beknocked out of you. But if you carry with you the values and beliefs that youcan make a di

17、fferencein your own life,firstand foremost, and then inthe livesof others. You can get back up, you can keep going.But itis also important,as I have found,notto takeyourselftoo seriously,because after all, every one of us here today, none of us is deserving of fullcredit. I think every day of the bl

18、essings my birth gave me without any doingofmy own. I chose neithermy family normy country,butthey as much as anythingI ve ever done, determined my course.You compare my or your circumstances with those of the majority of peoplewhove ever lived or who are living right now, they too often are born kn

19、owingtoo well what the irfutureswillbe. They lack the freedom to choose theirlifespath. 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. Dareto care about people who need o

20、ur help to succeed and fulfill their own lives.There are so many out thereand sometimes allittakes is the simplestof gesturesor helpinghands and manyof you understand thatalready.I know thatthe numbersof graduates in the last 20 years have worked in community organizations, have tutored, have commit

21、ted themselves to religious activities.精品文档You have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that itwas the right thing to do and because it gave something back to you. You havedared to care.Well,dare to careto fightfor equal justiceforall,for equalpay for women,against hate crimes

22、and bigotry. Dare to care about public schools withoutqualified teachers or adequate resources. Dare to care about protecting ourenvironment. Daretocare about the 10 millionchildren in our countrywho lackhealth insurance. Dare to care about the one and a half million children whohave a parent in jai

23、l. The seven million people who suffer from HIV/AIDS. Andthankyou forcaringenough to demand that ournationdo more to help those thatare sufferingthroughoutthisworldwithHIV/AIDS,topreventthispandemic fromspreading even further.And I llalsoadd,dare enough tocareaboutour politicalprocess.You know,as Ig

24、o and speak withstudentsI mimpressed so much, not onlyin formalsettings,on campuses, butwithmy daughter and her friends,about how muchyou care, abouthow willing you are to volunteer and serve. You may have missed the last waveoft he revolution,but youve understoodthatthemunityrevolution is there for

25、 you every single day. And youve been willing to bepart of remarking lives in our community.Andyet,thereis a realresistance,a turningaway from thepoliticalprocess.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 yo

26、ur friends at your.精品文档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 60sand 70 s, in the midst of the technological advances of the 80s and 90 s,are i

27、nheritingan economy, a societyand a government thathas yet to understandfully, or even come to grips with, our rapidly changing world.And so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. Dare tohelp make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics.Somehave cal

28、ledyou the generationof choice.Youve been raisedwith multiplechoice tests, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles.Youve grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior generations.Youve been invested with far more pers

29、onal 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 socialindicators,not the headlines,the socialindica

30、torstella positivestory:drug use and cheatingand arrestsbeing 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 y

31、ou I know believe that service and community volunteerism is a better way of solving the issues facing our.精品文档country thanpoliticalengagement, because you believe-chooseoneof thefollowing multiples or choose them all-government either cant understand orwont make the right choices because of politic

32、al pressures, inefficiency,incompetence or big money influence.Well, Iadmit there is enough truth in that critiquetojustifyfeelingdisconnected and alienated. But at bottom, thats a personal cop-out and anational peril. Political conditions maximize the conditions for individualopportunity and respon

33、sibility as well as community. Americorps and the PeaceCorps exist because of political decisions. Our air, water, land and food willbe clean and safe because of political choices. Our ability to cure disease orlog onto the Internet have been advanced because of politically determinedinvestments.Eth

34、nic cleansinginKosovo ended because ofpolitical leadership.Your parents and grandparents traveled here by means of government built andsubsidized transportation systems. Many used GI Bills or government loans, asI did, to attend college.Now, I could, as you might guess, go on and on, but the point i

35、s to remindus 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 toparticipate.Itis hardand itis,bringingchange in a democracy,particularlynow. Theres so much about ourmodern timesthatconspiretolowerour

36、sights,to weaken our vision-as individuals and communities and even nations.It is notthe vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather its a silent.精品文档conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism.But as man

37、y have said before and as Vaclav Havel has said to memorably,“Itcannot sufficejustto inventnew machines, new regulationsand new institutions.It is necessary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purposeof our existence on this Earth and of our deeds.” And I think we are calledon to r

38、eject, in this time of blessings that we enjoy, those who will tear usapart and tear us down and instead to liberate our God-given spirit, by beingwilling to dare to dream of a better world.During my campaign, when times were tough and days were long I used to thinkabout the example of HarrietTubman

39、, a heroic New Yorker, a19th century Moses,who risked her life to bring hundreds of slaves to freedom. She would say tothose who she gatheredup in the South where she kept going back year afteryearfrom the safety of Auburn, New York, that no matter what happens, they had tokeep going. If they heard

40、shouts behind them, they had to keep going. If theyheard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep going to freedom. Well, those arentthe risks we face. It is more the silence and apathy and indifference that dogsour heels.Thirty-two years ago, I spoke at my own graduation from Wellesley, where Idid call on

41、 my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on ourability to effect changeand instead to embrace the idea that the goal ofeducation should be human liberation and the freedom to practice with all the.精品文档skill of our being the art of making possible.For after all, our fate is to be fre

42、e. 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 becausemy daughter will be graduating in four weeks, graduating also from a wonderful place with a great education and beginning a

43、 new life. And as I think about all the parents and grandparents who are out there, I have a sense of what theirfeeling. 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 reallya fulfillment of our own Ame

44、rican 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.Thank you and God bless you all.