【正文】 貴賤，都同樣有機(jī)會(huì)發(fā)展個(gè)人的潛力。戰(zhàn)后，依據(jù)士兵福利法案 , 他們通過(guò)聯(lián)邦住宅管理局購(gòu)置了一套房子，并舉家西遷，謀求更大發(fā)展。母親來(lái)自完全不同的另一個(gè)世界，她生于堪薩斯的一個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)。 但祖父對(duì)父親抱以厚望。今晚對(duì)我而言頗不尋常，我們得承認(rèn)，我能站在這里本身就已意義非凡。 the belief in things not seen。 the hope of a millworker39。m talking about something more substantial. It39。t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported 5 it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. In the end, that39。 there39。s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still e together as a single American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one. Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there39。s an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It39。s not my child. If there39。s not enough for just some of us to prosper. For alongside our famous individualism, there39。s full ine, or whose loved ones had returned with a limb missing or with nerves shattered, but who still lacked longterm health benefits because they were reservists. When we send our young men and women into harm39。t achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white. No, people don39。t get me wrong. The people I meet in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks, they don39。 dreams live on in my two precious daughters. I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that, in no other country on earth, is my story even possible. Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation, not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago, We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams, the insistence on small miracles. That we can tuck in our children at night and know they are fed and clothed and safe from harm. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hiring somebody39。s army and marched across Europe. Back home, my grandmother raised their baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the GI Bill, bought a house through FHA, and later moved west all the way to Hawaii in search of opportunity. And they, too, had big dreams for their daughter, a mon dream, born of two continents. My parents shared not only an improbable love。s face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tinroof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place: America, that shone as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had e before. While studying here, my father met my mother. She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. The day after Pearl Harbor my grandfather signed up for duty, joined Patton39。t have to be rich to achieve your potential. They are both passed away now. Yet, I know that, on this night, they look down on me with great pride. 2 They stand here, and I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents39。t have the money to 3 go to college. Don39。t teach kids to learn. They know that parents have to parent, that children can39。d enlisted, his absolute faith in our country and its leaders, his devotion to duty and service, I thought this young man was all any of us might hope for in a child. But then I asked myself: Are we serving Shamus as well as he was serving us? I thought of more than 900 service men and women, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors, who won’t be returning to their hometowns. I thought of families I had met who were struggling to get by without a loved one39。re gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, 4 and earn the respect of the world. Now let me be clear. We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated. John Kerry knows this. And just as Lieutenant Kerry did not hesitate to risk his life to protect the men who served with him in Vietnam, President Kerry will not hesitate one moment to use our military might to keep America safe and secure. John Kerry believes in America. And he knows it39。t read, that matters to me, even if it39。s not my grandmother. If there39。s keeper that makes this country work. It39。s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America。ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don39。t talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. No, I39。 the hope of a young naval lieutenant b