【正文】 a seat at the table, all of them clamoring to be made lasting friendships here—friends that I see in the audience —斯普林菲爾德市，我眼見了美國所融匯的一切—農(nóng)民和教師，商人和公司員工—所有人都有著各自的故事，所有人都希望獲得一席之地，所有人都強烈期望自己的發(fā)言能夠受到重視。之后不久，我逐漸意識到我們所珍惜的自由與平等的權(quán)利依賴于全體選民的覺醒和積極參與。After three years of this work, I went to law school , because I wanted to understand how the law should work for those in became a civil rights lawyer and taught constitutional law, and after a time, I came to understand that our cherished rights of liberty and equality depend on the active participation of an awakened was with these ideas in mind that I arrived in this capital city as a State ，之后我去了（哈佛）法學院學習，因為我想要弄明白法律是如何為那些需要幫助的人提供服務(wù)的。我發(fā)現(xiàn)人們所遇到的不僅僅是地區(qū)性的問題—關(guān)閉鋼廠的決定是遙遠的行政官員做出的；學校缺少課本和計算機可以追溯到千里之外政客們的施政不當；當一個孩子有暴力傾向時，他心靈的創(chuàng)口單靠政府永遠無法彌補。and that when a child turns to violence, there’s a hole in his heart no government alone can 。My work took me to some of Chicago’s poorest joined with pastor s and laypeople to deal with munities that had been ravaged by plant saw that the problems people faced weren’t simply local in nature— that the decision to close a steel mill was made by distant executives。但有幾個教堂為我提供了一份社區(qū)組織者的工作。你們大多數(shù)人都知道，我并不是偉大的伊利諾伊州土生土長的公民，我是在20多年前搬到這里的。I knew no one in Chicago, was without money or family a group of churches had offered me a job as a munity organizer for $13,000 a I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea—that I might play a small part in building a better 。政治將你們拒之門外，讓你們安于現(xiàn)狀，長期彼此分隔，但你們相信我們作為一個民族，能夠?qū)崿F(xiàn)可能實現(xiàn)的一切，打造一個更加完美的聯(lián)邦。面對戰(zhàn)爭，你們相信和平將至。you came here because you believe in what this country can the face of war, you believe there can be the face of despair, you believe there can be the face of a politics that’s shut you out, that’s told you to settle, that’s divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what’s possible, building that more perfect 。第一篇：奧巴馬競選宣言Declaration of Candidacy 競選宣言DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY February 10, 2007 | Springfield, Illinois Let me begin by saying thanks to all of you who’ve traveled, from far and wide, to brave the cold ，請允許我對今天冒著嚴寒、遠道而來的朋友們表示感謝。We all made this journey for a ’s humbling, but in my heart I know you didn’t e here just for me。我感謝大家的熱誠，在我心里，我知道你們并非僅僅為我而來，你們此行的原因更在于你們相信這個國家的未來。面對絕望，你們相信希望尚存。That’s the journey we’re on let me tell you how I came to be most of you know, I am not a native of this great moved to Illinois over two decades was a young man then, just a year out of college。我告訴你們我是如何來到這里的。那時的我還是個年輕人，剛從大學畢業(yè)一年；在芝加哥，我身無分文，舉目無親。我毫不猶豫地接受了這份工作，因為我的心一直被一個簡單且有力的想法激勵著—我可以為建設(shè)一個更加美好的美國盡一份綿薄之力。that the lack of textbooks and puters in schools could be traced to the skewed priorities of politicians a thousand miles away。我和牧師及普通民眾一起，幫助因工廠倒閉而備受蹂躪的社區(qū)。正是在這些社區(qū)里，我受到了有生以來最好的教育，也懂得了基督教信仰的真諦。我成了一名民權(quán)事務(wù)律師，并教授憲法課程。懷著這些想法，我來到了州首府，成為了一名州參議員。我在這里獲得了永恒的友誼—我看到許多朋友也在今天的聽眾當中。and that so long as we’re willing to listen to each other, we can assume the best in people instead of the ，我們學會了用和顏悅色的方式去對待意見不一—在堅持原則的情況下，達成共識；只要我們愿意傾聽對方的意見，我們就能以人性的真善美而非假惡丑與人進行交往。這也是為什么我們通過了被那些憤世嫉俗者宣稱永遠不能通過的道德改革法案的原因。And that is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol , where Lincoln once called on a divided house to stand together, where mon hopes and mon dreams still live, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United ，在古老的國會大廈下面，在林肯曾經(jīng)呼吁分裂的議會團結(jié)一致的地方，在共同的希望和夢想仍然鮮活的地方，我今天站在你們面前宣布我將競選美國總統(tǒng)。我知道我并未花費很多時間來研究華盛頓的施政方略，但我在那兒待的時間已經(jīng)足夠讓我認識到華盛頓的施政方略必須要變革。我們應樹立信心，因為我們曾對這個國家進行過變革。面對分裂，我們團結(jié)整個國家，解放了黑奴。我們歡迎外來移民，我們將鐵路延伸至西部，我們將宇航員送上月球，我們還聽到了馬丁金的號召，讓公平似水奔流、正義如泉噴涌。今天，我們再一次受到了感召—此時正是我們這一代做出回應的時刻。He had his through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a is because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we are no longer divided, North and South, slave and is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life , continued to march for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest , that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people— as 他有自己的疑慮、失敗，亦曾遭遇挫折。正是因為數(shù)百萬人支持他的事業(yè)，所以我們不再分裂，不論南方還是北方，奴隸抑或自由人。All of us know what those challenges are today—a war with no end, a dependence on oil that threatens our future, schools where too many children aren’t learning, and families struggling paycheck to paycheck despite working as hard as they know the ’ve heard ’ve talked about them for —一場無休止的戰(zhàn)爭，對石油的依賴威脅著我們的未來，許多兒童不在學校好好讀書，許多家庭努力掙扎著賺取工資以支付各種賬單。What’s stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible ’s stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics—the ease with which we’re distracted by the petty and trivial , our chronic avoidance of tough decisions , our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big ，而是領(lǐng)導無方，“狹隘”政治—我們被那些繁文縟節(jié)分散了注意力，我們長期以來對艱難抉擇的逃避，我們期望輕易地獲得政治籌碼，而沒有挽起袖子好好工作，更沒有達成工作共識來解決重大問題。當經(jīng)歷所有其他的失敗后，當卡特里娜颶風來臨時，抑或當伊拉克戰(zhàn)場上士兵的死亡人數(shù)不斷增加時，我們被告知我們的危機源自其他人的錯誤。We’ve made some progress was proud to help lead the fight in Congress that led to the most sweeping ethics reform since 。But Washington has a long way to it won’t be ’s why we’ll have to set ’ll have to make hard although government will play a crucial role in bringing about the changes we need, more money and programs alone will not get us where we need to of us, in our own lives, will have to accept responsibility—for instilling an ethic of achievement in our children, for adapting to a more petitive economy, for strengthening our munities, and sharing some measure of let us us begin this hard work us transform this ，而且這條路并不容易走下去。雖然政府會發(fā)揮關(guān)鍵作用，帶來我們需要的變革，但僅憑金錢和方案的增加并不能保證讓我們獲得預想的結(jié)果。那么，讓我們就此開始行動吧。讓我們來實現(xiàn)整個國家的變革。讓我們高標準要求學校，并給予助其成功所需要的一切資源。讓我們使孩子能夠上得起大學，讓我們在科研方面進行投資，讓我們在全美國的各個城市和鄉(xiāng)村中心鋪設(shè)寬帶線路。Let’s be the generation that ends poverty in single person willing to work should be able to get job training that leads to a job, and earn a living wage that can pay the bills, and aff