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　　heal the kids amp。ndash。 oxford speech
　　oxford university, march XX by michael jackson
　　thank you, thank you dear friends, from the bottom of my heart, for such a loving and spirited wele, and thank you, mr president, for your kind invitation to me which i am so honored to accept. i also want to express a special thanks to you shmuley, who for 11 years served as rabbi here at oxford. you and i have been working so hard to form heal the kids, as well as writing our book about childlike qualities, and in all of our efforts you have been such a supportive and loving friend. and i would also like to thank toba friedman, our director of operations at heal the kids, who is returning tonight to the alma mater where she served as a marshall scholar, as well as marilyn piels, another central member of our heal the kids team.
　　i am humbled to be lecturing in a place that has previously been filled by such notable figures as mother theresa, albert einstein, ronald reagan, robert kennedy and malcolm x. iamp。39。ve even heard that kermit the frog has made an appearance here, and iamp。39。ve always felt a kinship with kermitamp。39。s message that itamp。39。s not easy being green. iamp。39。m sure he didnamp。39。t find it any easier being up here than i do!
　　as i looked around oxford today, i couldnamp。39。t help but be aware of the majesty and grandeur of this great institution, not to mention the brilliance of the great and gifted minds that have roamed these streets for centuries. the walls of oxford have not only housed the greatest philosophical and scientific geniuses amp。ndash。 they have also ushered forth some of the most cherished creators of childrenamp。39。s literature, from . tolkien to cs lewis. today i was allowed to hobble into the dining hall in christ church to see lewis carrollamp。39。s alice in wonderland immortalized in the stained glass windows. and even one of my own fellow americans, the beloved dr seuss graced these halls and then went on to leave his mark on the imaginations of millions of children throughout the world.
　　i suppose i should start by listing my qualifications to speak before you this evening. friends, i do not claim to have the academic expertise of other speakers who have addressed this hall, just as they could lay little claim at being adept at the moonwalk amp。ndash。 and you know, einstein in particular was really terrible at that.
　　but i do have a claim to having experienced more places and cultures than most people will ever see. human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink amp。ndash。 it is also prised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiseled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. and friends, i have encountered so much in this relatively short life of mine that i still cannot believe i am chiseled only 42. i often tell shmuley that in soul years iamp。39。m sure that iamp。39。m at least 80 amp。ndash。 and tonight i even walk like iamp。39。m 80! so please harken to my message, because what i have to tell you tonight can bring healing to humanity and healing to our planet.
　　through the grace of god, i have been fortunate to have achieved many of my artistic and professional aspirations realized early in my lifetime. but these, friends are acplishments, and acplishments alone are not synonymous with who i am. indeed, the cheery fiveyearold who belted out rockinamp。39。 robin and ben to adoring crowds was not indicative of the boy behind the smile.
　　tonight, i e before you less as an icon of pop (whatever that means anyway), and more as an icon of a generation, a generation that no longer knows what it means to be children.
　　all of us are products of our childhood. but i am the product of a lack of a childhood, an absence of that precious and wondrous age when we frolic playfully without a care in the world, basking in the adoration of parents and relatives, where our biggest concern is studying for that big spelling test e monday morning.
　　those of you who are familiar with the jackson five know that i began performing at the tender age of five and that ever since then, i havenamp。39。t stopped dancing or singing. but while performing and making music undoubtedly remain as some of my greatest joys, when i was young i wanted more than anything else to be a typical little boy. i wanted to build tree houses, have water balloon fights, and play hide and seek with my friends. but fate had it otherwise and all i could do was envy the laughter and playtime that seemed to be going on all around me.
　　there was no respite from my professional life. but on sundays i would go pioneering, the term used for the missionary work that jehovahamp。39。s witnesses do. and it was then that i was able to see the magic of other peopleamp。39。s childhood.
　　since i was already a celebrity, i would have to don a disguise of fat suit, wig, beard and glasses and we would spend the day in the suburbs of southern california, going doortodoor or making the rounds of shopping malls, distributing our watchtower magazine. i loved to set foot in all those regular suburban houses and catch sight of the shag rugs and lazboy armchairs with kids playing monopoly