The Audicity of Hope 无畏的希望 Barack Obama 巴拉克·奥巴马

• [00:00.79]On behalf of the great state of Illinois
• [00:05.93]crossroads of a nation
• [00:08.19]Land of Lincoln
• [00:10.74]let me express my deepest gratitude
• [00:14.24]for the privilege
• [00:14.55]of addressing this convention
• [00:17.99]Tonight is a particular honor for me
• [00:19.76]because let's face it
• [00:21.57]my presence on this stage
• [00:23.65]is pretty unlikely
• [00:26.21]My father was a foreign student
• [00:28.59]born and raised in a small village
• [00:31.04]in Kenya
• [00:33.43]He grew up herding goats
• [00:35.13]went to school in a tin-roof shack
• [00:37.26]His father my grandfather was a cook
• [00:40.24]a domestic servant to the British
• [00:43.19]But my grandfather had larger dreams
• [00:45.95]for his son
• [00:47.38]Through hard work and perseverance
• [00:49.43]my father got a scholarship
• [00:50.79]to study in a magical place, America
• [00:54.49]that shone as a beacon of freedom
• [00:56.19]and opportunity to so many
• [00:57.77]who had come before.
• [01:02.71]While studying here
• [01:04.21]my father met my mother.
• [01:07.21]She was born in a town
• [01:08.52]on the other side of the world,
• [01:10.09]in Kansas.
• [01:16.73]Her father worked on oil rigs
• [01:18.49]and farms through most of the Depression.
• [01:21.54]The day after Pearl Harbor
• [01:23.80]my grandfather signed up for duty
• [01:26.74] joined Patton's army,
• [01:27.74]marched across Europe.
• [01:29.66]Back home, my grandmother raised a baby
• [01:31.85]and went to work
• [01:33.55]on a bomber assembly line.
• [01:35.74]After the war,
• [01:37.18]they studied on the G.I. Bill,
• [01:38.96]bought a house through F.H.A.
• [01:41.18]and later moved west all the way
• [01:43.24]to Hawaii in search of opportunity.
• [01:47.55]And they, too,
• [01:48.65]had big dreams for their daughter.
• [01:50.54]A common dream, born of two continents.
• [01:54.24]My parents shared not only
• [01:55.68]an improbable love
• [01:57.57]they shared an abiding faith
• [01:59.35]in the possibilities of this nation.
• [02:02.16]They would give me an African name,
• [02:03.87]Barack, or "blessed",
• [02:05.68]believing that in a tolerant America
• [02:07.38]your name is no barrier to success.
• [02:12.79]They imagined me
• [02:15.85]going to the best schools in the land
• [02:19.13]even though they weren't rich
• [02:20.28]because in a generous America
• [02:21.80]you don't have to be rich
• [02:23.43]to achieve your potential.
• [02:28.71]They're both passed away now.
• [02:30.77]And yet, I know that
• [02:33.14]on this night they look down on me
• [02:35.58]with great pride.
• [02:37.70]And I stand here today,
• [02:40.78]grateful for the diversity
• [02:42.05]of my heritage
• [02:43.80]aware that my parents' dreams
• [02:45.62]live on in my two precious daughters.
• [02:49.17]I stand here knowing that
• [02:50.86]my story is part of
• [02:52.55]the larger American story
• [02:54.17]that I owe a debt to all of those
• [02:56.12]who came before me
• [02:57.19]and that, in no other country on earth,
• [02:59.26]is my story even possible.
• [03:07.20]Tonight, we gather to affirm
• [03:11.41]the greatness of our Nation
• [03:14.34]not because of
• [03:14.97]the height of our skyscrapers,
• [03:16.51]or the power of our military
• [03:17.76]or the size of our economy.
• [03:19.55]Our pride is based on
• [03:20.98]a very simple premise
• [03:22.67]summed up in a declaration
• [03:24.92]made over two hundred years ago:
• [03:27.55]We hold these truths to be self-evident,
• [03:30.42]that all men are created equal
• [03:34.62]that they are endowed
• [03:35.62]by their Creator
• [03:36.25]with certain inalienable rights
• [03:37.97]that among these are
• [03:39.29]Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
• [03:43.05]That is the true genius of America
• [03:47.11]a faith in simple dreams
• [03:51.98]an insistence on small miracles
• [03:55.67]That we can tuck in
• [03:56.23]our children at night
• [03:58.44]and know that they are fed
• [03:59.69]and clothed and safe from harm
• [04:02.06]That we can say what we think,
• [04:03.62]write what we think,
• [04:04.39]without hearing a sudden knock
• [04:05.29]on the door
• [04:07.54]That we can have an idea
• [04:08.67]and start our own business
• [04:10.23]without paying a bribe
• [04:13.29]That we can participate
• [04:14.37]in the political process
• [04:15.67]without fear of retribution
• [04:17.36]and that our votes will be counted
• [04:19.39]at least most of the time.
• [04:29.45]This year, in this election
• [04:31.60]we are called to reaffirm our values
• [04:34.09]and our commitments,
• [04:35.03]to hold them against a hard reality
• [04:37.66]and see how we're measuring up
• [04:39.34]to the legacy of our forbearers
• [04:40.84]and the promise of future generations.
• [04:43.08]And fellow Americans,
• [04:44.70]Democrats, Republicans, Independents
• [04:47.45]I say to you tonight:
• [04:48.89]We have more work to do
• [04:54.14]more work to do
• [04:56.27]for the workers I met in Galesburg Illinois
• [04:58.64]who are losing their union jobs
• [04:59.97]at the Maytag plant
• [05:01.03]that's moving to Mexico,
• [05:02.67]and now are having to compete
• [05:04.05]with their own children
• [05:05.17]for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour
• [05:08.23]more to do for the father
• [05:09.23]that I met who was losing his job
• [05:11.86]and choking back the tears
• [05:12.67]wondering how he would pay
• [05:14.05]4,500 dollars a month
• [05:15.80]for the drugs his son needs
• [05:17.17]without the health benefits
• [05:19.17]that he counted on?
• [05:21.73]more to do for the young woman
• [05:22.92]in East St. Louis,
• [05:23.86]and thousands more like her,
• [05:25.17]who has the grades,
• [05:26.42]has the drive,
• [05:27.48]has the will
• [05:28.43]but doesn't have the money
• [05:29.81]to go to college.
• [05:31.94]Now, don't get me wrong.
• [05:33.81]The people I meet in small towns
• [05:35.69]and big cities, in diners
• [05:37.14]and office parks
• [05:39.45]they don't expect government
• [05:40.39]to solve all their problems.
• [05:42.55]They know they have to work hard
• [05:43.84]to get ahead, and they want to.
• [05:46.66]Go into the collar counties
• [05:47.72]around Chicago
• [05:48.59]and people will tell you
• [05:49.72]they don't want their tax money wasted,
• [05:51.67]by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon.
• [05:55.80]Go into any inner city neighborhood
• [06:01.08]and folks will tell you
• [06:02.84]that government alone
• [06:04.09]can't teach our kids to learn
• [06:05.91]they know that parents have to teach,
• [06:07.97]that children can't achieve
• [06:09.41]unless we raise their expectations
• [06:10.91]and turn off the television sets
• [06:12.78]and eradicate the slander that says
• [06:15.28]a black youth with a book
• [06:16.72]is acting white.
• [06:18.09]They know those things.
• [06:25.82]People don't expect government
• [06:29.50]to solve all their problems.
• [06:32.08]But they sense, deep in their bones,
• [06:35.02]that with just
• [06:36.22]a slight change in priorities,
• [06:37.74]we can make sure
• [06:38.99]that every child in America
• [06:39.94]has a decent shot at life,
• [06:42.08]and that the doors of opportunity
• [06:43.02]remain open to all.
• [06:44.39]They know we can do better.
• [06:46.77]And they want that choice.
• [06:49.52]In this election, we offer that choice.
• [06:52.27]Our Party has chosen a man
• [06:53.91]to lead us who embodies
• [06:55.47]the best this country has to offer.
• [06:57.60]And that man is John Kerry.
• [07:08.67]John Kerry understands the ideals of
• [07:10.49]community, faith, and service
• [07:12.69]because they've defined his life.
• [07:14.81]From his heroic service to Vietnam,
• [07:16.63]to his years as a prosecutor
• [07:18.09]and lieutenant governor,
• [07:19.08]through two decades
• [07:20.22]in the United States Senate,
• [07:21.50]he's devoted himself to this country.
• [07:24.33]Again and again,
• [07:25.58]we've seen him make tough choices
• [07:27.08]when easier ones were available.
• [07:29.39]His values and his record affirm
• [07:32.21]what is best in us.
• [07:34.83]John Kerry believes in an America
• [07:36.27]where hard work is rewarded
• [07:38.14]So instead of offering tax breaks
• [07:39.45]to companies shipping jobs overseas,
• [07:41.45]he offers them to companies
• [07:43.16]creating jobs here at home.
• [07:46.67]John Kerry believes in an America
• [07:48.55]where all Americans can afford
• [07:50.86]the same health coverage
• [07:52.02]our politicians in Washington
• [07:53.71]have for themselves.
• [07:56.71]John Kerry believes in
• [07:58.77]energy independence,
• [08:00.52]so we aren't held hostage
• [08:01.75]to the profits of oil companies,
• [08:03.28]or the sabotage of foreign oil fields.
• [08:07.95]John Kerry believes in
• [08:09.33]the Constitutional freedoms
• [08:10.97]that have made our country
• [08:12.20]the envy of the world,
• [08:13.70]and he will never saCRIfice
• [08:15.08]our basic liberties,
• [08:16.77]nor use faith as a wedge to divide us.
• [08:26.24]And John Kerry believes
• [08:28.81]that in a dangerous world
• [08:31.37]war must be an option sometimes,
• [08:33.40]but it should never be
• [08:34.27]the first option.
• [08:38.60]You know, a while back
• [08:41.88]I met a young man named Shamus
• [08:44.24]in a VFW Hall in East Moline, Illinois.
• [08:47.54]He was a good-looking kid
• [08:48.40]six two, six three,
• [08:49.85]clear eyed, with an easy smile.
• [08:51.77]He told me he'd joined the Marines
• [08:54.42]and was heading to Iraq
• [08:55.49]the following week.
• [08:57.12]And as I listened to him
• [08:59.29]explain why he'd enlisted,
• [09:01.70]the absolute faith he had
• [09:03.23]in our country and its leaders,
• [09:04.79]his devotion to duty and service,
• [09:06.82]I thought this young man
• [09:08.41]was all that any of us
• [09:09.76]might ever hope for in a child.
• [09:12.60]But then I asked myself,
• [09:14.29]Are we serving Shamus
• [09:16.95]as well as he is serving us
• [09:19.63]I thought of the 900 men and women
• [09:22.60]sons and daughters
• [09:23.79]husbands and wives,
• [09:24.88]friends and neighbors
• [09:26.07]who won't be returning
• [09:27.83]to their own hometowns.
• [09:29.93]I thought of the families
• [09:31.62]I've met who were struggling
• [09:32.74]to get by
• [09:33.15]without a loved one's full income
• [09:35.40]or whose loved ones
• [09:36.55]had returned with a limb missing
• [09:37.96]or nerves shattered
• [09:39.76]but still
• [09:40.95]lacked long-term health benefits
• [09:42.37]because they were Reservists.
• [09:45.51]When we send our young men and women
• [09:47.57]into harm's way
• [09:48.59]we have a solemn obligation
• [09:50.99]not to fudge the numbers
• [09:52.51]or shade the truth
• [09:53.57]about why they're going,
• [09:55.31]to care for their families
• [09:56.24]while they're gone,
• [09:57.23]to tend to the soldiers
• [09:58.70]upon their return,
• [09:59.76]and to never ever
• [10:00.88]go to war without enough troops
• [10:03.74]to win the war,
• [10:04.74]secure the peace,
• [10:05.91]and earn the respect of the world.
• [10:18.82]Now let me be clear.
• [10:23.40]We have real enemies in the world.
• [10:26.02]These enemies must be found.
• [10:27.55]They must be pursued.
• [10:29.43]And they must be defeated.
• [10:31.49]John Kerry knows this.
• [10:32.93]And just as Lieutenant Kerry
• [10:35.12]did not hesitate
• [10:35.93]to risk his life
• [10:36.99]to protect the men
• [10:38.38]who served with him in Vietnam,
• [10:39.93]President Kerry
• [10:41.12]will not hesitate one moment
• [10:42.93]to use our military might
• [10:44.12]to keep America safe and secure.
• [10:48.18]John Kerry believes in America.
• [10:50.80]And he knows that
• [10:53.30]it's not enough
• [10:53.99]for just some of us to prosper
• [10:56.30]for alongside our famous individualism,
• [10:59.43]there's another ingredient
• [11:00.80]in the American saga,
• [11:03.05]a belief that we're all connected
• [11:05.18]as one people.
• [11:07.24]If there is a child
• [11:08.13]on the south side of Chicago
• [11:09.63]who can't read,
• [11:10.44]that matters to me,
• [11:11.44]even if it's not my child.
• [11:13.82]If there is a senior citizen somewhere
• [11:15.32]who can't pay for
• [11:16.51]their presCRIption drugs,
• [11:17.73]and having to choose
• [11:18.55]between medicine and the rent,
• [11:20.13]that makes my life poorer,
• [11:21.69]even if it's not my grandparent.
• [11:24.69]If there's an Arab American family
• [11:26.51]being rounded up
• [11:27.65]without benefit of an attorney
• [11:28.96]or due process
• [11:30.52]that threatens my civil liberties.
• [11:38.49]It is that fundamental belief
• [11:42.68]It is that fundamental belief
• [11:44.96]I am my brother's keeper,
• [11:46.52]I am my sister's keeper
• [11:48.52]that makes this country work.
• [11:51.83]It's what allows us
• [11:53.58]to pursue our individual dreams
• [11:55.65]and yet still come together
• [11:57.40]as one American family.
• [12:00.02]E pluribus unum
• [12:01.83]Out of many, one.
• [12:04.96]Now even as we speak
• [12:07.90]there are those
• [12:08.40]who are preparing to divide us
• [12:10.58]the spin masters
• [12:11.58]the negative ad peddlers
• [12:12.96]who embrace the politics of
• [12:15.21]anything goes
• [12:16.96]Well, I say to them tonight,
• [12:20.13]there is not a liberal America
• [12:21.69]and a conservative America
• [12:23.51]There is the United States of America.
• [12:28.07]There is not a Black America
• [12:29.82]and a White America
• [12:31.32]and Latino America and Asian America
• [12:34.26]There's the United States of America.
• [12:39.79]The pundits like to slice
• [12:42.22]and dice our country
• [12:43.72]into Red States and Blue States
• [12:46.33]Red States for Republicans,
• [12:47.99]Blue States for Democrats.
• [12:49.80]But I've got news for them, too.
• [12:51.30]We worship an "awesome God"
• [12:52.68]in the Blue States,
• [12:54.11]and we don't like federal agents
• [12:56.05]poking around in our libraries
• [12:57.27]in the Red States.
• [13:01.15]We coach Little League
• [13:02.77]in the Blue States
• [13:03.52]and yes
• [13:04.15]we've got some gay friends
• [13:05.40]in the Red States.
• [13:08.16]There are patriots
• [13:09.35]who opposed the war in Iraq
• [13:10.79]and there are patriots
• [13:11.60]who supported the war in Iraq.
• [13:13.50]We are one people
• [13:14.94]all of us pledging allegiance
• [13:16.38]to the Stars and Stripes,
• [13:17.69]all of us defending
• [13:19.13]the United States of America.
• [13:30.36]In the end,
• [13:34.13]In the end ,
• [13:37.68]that's what this election is about.
• [13:40.53]Do we participate in
• [13:43.02]a politics of cynicism
• [13:44.85]or do we participate in
• [13:46.47]a politics of hope
• [13:49.78]John Kerry calls on us to hope.
• [13:52.53]John Edwards calls on us to hope.
• [13:55.12]I'm not talking about blind optimism here
• [13:57.81]the almost wilful ignorance
• [13:59.09]that thinks unemployment will go away
• [14:00.97]if we just don't think about it,
• [14:02.29]or the health care CRIsis
• [14:04.50]will solve itself if we just ignore it.
• [14:06.04]That's not what I'm talking about.
• [14:06.97]I'm talking about something
• [14:08.32]more substantial.
• [14:10.72]It's the hope of slaves
• [14:11.86]sitting around a fire
• [14:12.97]singing freedom songs
• [14:14.77]the hope of immigrants
• [14:16.14]setting out for distant shores
• [14:19.57]the hope of a young naval lieutenant
• [14:21.74]bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta
• [14:24.78]the hope of a millworker's son
• [14:26.13]who dares to defy the odds
• [14:27.94]the hope of a skinny kid
• [14:29.71]with a funny name
• [14:31.02]who believes that
• [14:32.02]America has a place for him too.
• [14:43.68]Hope in the face of difficulty.
• [14:47.77]Hope in the face of uncertainty.
• [14:50.49]The audacity of hope!
• [14:53.71]In the end,
• [14:54.58]that is God's greatest gift to us,
• [14:56.30]the bedrock of this nation.
• [14:58.24]A belief in things not seen.
• [15:00.39]A belief that
• [15:02.82]there are better days ahead.
• [15:03.50]I believe that
• [15:04.85]we can give our middle class relief
• [15:06.60]and provide working families
• [15:08.00]with a road to opportunity.
• [15:10.00]I believe we can provide jobs
• [15:11.60]to the jobless,
• [15:12.58]homes to the homeless,
• [15:13.64]and reclaim young people
• [15:15.02]in cities across America
• [15:15.52]from violence and despair.
• [15:18.74]I believe that
• [15:20.83]we have a righteous wind at our backs
• [15:22.41]and that as we stand on
• [15:23.85]the crossroads of history,
• [15:24.97]we can make the right choices,
• [15:26.50]and meet the challenges that face us.
• [15:28.72]America! Tonight,
• [15:30.85]if you feel the same energy that I do,
• [15:32.88]if you feel the same urgency that I do,
• [15:35.28]if you feel the same passion that I do,
• [15:37.56]if you feel the same hopefulness that I do
• [15:40.53]if we do what we must do,
• [15:42.64]then I have no doubt
• [15:43.86]that all across the country,
• [15:46.70]from Florida to Oregon,
• [15:48.39]from Washington to Maine,
• [15:50.36]the people will rise up in November,
• [15:53.02]and John Kerry will be sworn in
• [15:54.52]as President,
• [15:55.92]and John Edwards will be sworn
• [15:56.99]in as Vice President,
• [15:58.64]and this country will reclaim its promise,
• [16:00.83]and out of this long political darkness
• [16:03.13]a brighter day will come.
• [16:04.78]Thank you very much everybody.
• [16:06.10]God bless you. Thank you.