【正文】 。t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules...and success doesn39。s how they raised us...that39。t start out with much, if you work hard and do what you39。t begrudge anyone else39。s all that really matters.”Like so many American families, our families weren39。s grandmother started out as a secretary at a munity bank...and she moved quickly up the ranks...but like so many women, she hit a glass for years, men no more qualified than she was – men she had actually trained – were promoted up the ladder ahead of her, earning more and more money while Barack39。d grown up all the way across the country, he39。s work, my brother and I would stand at the top of the stairs to our little apartment, patiently waiting to greet him...watching as he reached down to lift one leg, and then the other, to slowly climb his way into our despite these challenges, my dad hardly ever missed a day of work...he and my momwere determined to give me and my brother the kind of education they could only dream when my brother and I finally made it to college, nearly all of our tuition came from student loans and my dad still had to pay a tiny portion of that tuition every semester, he was determined to pay that bill right on time, even taking out loans when he fell was so proud to be sending his kids to college...and he made sure we never missed a registration deadline because his check was see, for my dad, that39。s when I knew I had found a kindred spirit, someone whose values and upbringing were so much like see, Barack and I were both raised by families who didn39。d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door...he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he39。ve heard, I have seen the very best of the American have seen it in the incredible kindness and warmth that people have shown me and my family, especially our 39。ve gone, in the people I39。第一篇：美國第一夫人米歇爾奧巴馬著名演講美國第一夫人米歇爾奧巴馬著名演講——演講稿英文版一Thank you so much, Elaine...we are so grateful for your family39。s service and sacrifice...and we will always have your the past few years as First Lady, I have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this everywhere I39。ve met, and the stories I39。ve seen it in teachers in a nearbankrupt school district who vowed to keep teaching without see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate...to me, he was still the guy who39。d found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too when Barack started telling me about his family – that39。t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when my brother and I were even as a kid, I knew there were plenty of days when he was in pain...I knew there were plenty of mornings when it was a struggle for him to simply get out of every morning, I watched my father wake up with a smile, grab his walker, prop himself up against the bathroom sink, and slowly shave and button his when he returned home after a long day39。s what it meant to be a so many of us, that was the measure of his success in life – being able to earn a decent living that allowed him to support his as I got to know Barack, I realized that even though he39。d been brought up just like was raised by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills, and by grandparents who stepped in when she needed 39。s family continued to scrape day after day, she kept on waking up at dawn to catch the bus...arriving at work before anyone else...giving her best without plaint or she would often tell Barack, “So long as you kids do well, Bar, that39。t asking for didn39。s success or care that others had much more than they did...in fact, they admired simply believed in that fundamental American promise that, even if you don39。re supposed to do, then you should be able to build a decent life for yourself and an even better life for your kids and 39。s what we learned from their learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make...that helping others means more than just getting ahead learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters...that you don39。t count unless you earn it fair and learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean...and we were taught to value everyone39。s who we standing before you four years ago, I knew that I didn39。t change who you are – it reveals who you see, I39。ve seen how the issues that e across a President39。s thinking about the pride that es from a hard day39。s why he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help women get equal pay for equal 39。s how he brought our economy from the brink of collapse to creating jobs again – jobs you can raise a family on, good jobs right here in the United States of it es to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another didn39。s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to did it because he believes that here in America, our grandparents should be able to afford their medicine...our kids should be able to see a doctor when they39。s what my husband stands it es to giving our kids the education they deserve, Barack knows that like me and like so many of you, he never could39。s why Barack has fought so hard to increase student aid and keep interest rates down, because he wants every young person to fulfill their promise and be able to attend college without a mountain of in the end, for Barack, these issues aren39。re Barack knows what it means when a family knows wha