【正文】 aise the American family but ignore a virus that destroys must be consistent if we are to be cannot love justice and ignore prejudice, love our children and fear to teach our role as parent or policymaker, we must act as eloquently as we speakelse we have no call to the nation is a plea for you believe you are safe, you are in I was not hemophiliac, I was not at I was not gay, I was not at I did not inject drugs, I was not at father has devoted much of his lifetime guarding against another is part of the generation who heard Pastor Nemoellor e out of the Nazi death camps to say, “They came after the Jews, and I was not a Jew, so, I did not came after the trade unionists, and I was not a trade unionist, so, I did not they came after the Roman Catholics, and I was not a Roman Catholic, so, I did not they came after me, and there was no one left to protest.”TheThe lesson history teaches is this: If you believe you are safe, you are at you do not see this killer stalking your children, look is no family or munity, no race or religion, no place left in America that is we genuinely embrace this message, we are a nation at , HIV marches resolutely toward AIDS in more than a million American homes, littering its pathway with the bodies of the youngyoung men, young women, young parents, and young of the families is it is true that HIV inevitably turns to AIDS, then my children will inevitably turn to family has been a rock of 84yearold father, who has pursued the healing of the nations, will not accept the premise that he cannot heal his mother refuses to be still calls at midnight to tell wonderful jokes that make me and friends, and my brother Phillip, whose birthday is today, all have helped carry me over the hardest am blessed, richly and deeply blessed, to have such a not all of youBut not all of you have been so are HIV positive, but dare not say have lost loved ones, but you dare not whisper the word weep grieve have a message for is not you who should feel is wewe who tolerate ignorance and practice prejudice, we who have taught you to must lift ourshroud of silence, making it safe for you to reach out for is our task to seek safety for our children, not in quiet denial, but in effective our children will be son Max, now four, will take the measure of his son Zachary, now two, will sort through his may not be here to hear their judgments, but I know already what I hope they want my children to know that their mother was not a was a do not want them to think, as I once did, that courage is the absence of want them to know that courage is the strength to act wisely when most we are 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 ask no more of you than I ask of myself or of my the millions of you who are grieving, who are frightened, who have suffered the ravages of AIDS firsthand: Have courage, and you will find the millions who are strong, I issue the plea: Set aside prejudice and politics to make room for passion and sound my children, I make this pledge: I will not give in, Zachary, because I draw my courage from silly giggle gives me hope。and we have helped it have killed each other with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our may take refuge in our stereotypes, but we cannot hide there long, because HIV asks only one thing of those it you human? And this is the right you human? Because people with HIV have not entered some alien state of are have not earned cruelty, and they do not deserve don’t benefit from being isolated or treated as of them is exactly what God made: a person。and I stand before you and before the nation reality of AIDS is brutally hundred thousand Americans are dead or million more are , forty million, sixty million, or a hundred million infections will be counted in the ing few despite science and research, White House meetings, and congressional hearings, despite good intentions and bold initiatives, campaign slogans, and hopeful promises, it isdespite it allthe epidemic which is winning 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 does not care whether you are Democrat or Republican。your gentle prayers give me strength。not evil, deserving of our judgment。it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or , I represent an AIDS munity whose members have been reluctantly drafted from every segment of American I am white and a mother, I am one with a black infant struggling with tubes in a Philadelphia 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 is not a distant is a present rate of infection is increasing fastest among women and unknown a decade ago, AIDS is the third leading killer of young adult Americans it won’t be third for long，because unlike other diseases, this one don’t give each other cancer or heart disease because they believe they are in love, but HIV is different。第一篇：美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇A_Whisper_of_AIDS美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇:A Whisper of AIDSLess 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 have e tonight to bring our silence to an bear a message of challenge, not want your attention, not your 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 reality of AIDS is brutally hundred thousand Americans are dead or million more are , forty million, sixty million, or a hundred million infections will be counted in the ing few despite science and research, White House me