【正文】 question. Are you human? Because people with HIV have not entered some alien state of being. They are human. They have not earned cruelty, and they do not deserve meanness. They donamp。t benefit from being isolated or treated as outcasts. Each of them is exactly what God made: a person。 not victims, longing for our pity people, ready for support and worthy of passion.
　　My call to you, my Party, is to take a public stand, no less passionate than that of the President and Mrs. Bush. They have embraced me and my family in memorable ways. In the place of judgment, they have shown affection. In difficult moments, they have raised our spirits. In the darkest hours, I have seen them reaching not only to me, but also to my parents, armed with that stunning grief and special grace that es only to parents who have themselves leaned too long over the bedside of a dying child.
　　With the Presidentamp。s leadership, much good has been done. Much of the good has gone unheralded, and as the President has insisted, much remains to be done. But we do the Presidentamp。s cause no good if we praise the American family but ignore a virus that destroys it.
　　We must be consistent if we are to be believed. We cannot love justice and ignore prejudice, love our children and fear to teach them. Whatever our role as parent or policymaker, we must act as eloquently as we speak else we have no integrity. My call to the nation is a plea for awareness. If you believe you are safe, you are in danger. Because I was not hemophiliac, I was not at risk. Because I was not gay, I was not at risk. Because I did not inject drugs, I was not at risk.
　　My father has devoted much of his lifetime guarding against another holocaust. He is part of the generation who heard Pastor Nemoellor e out of the Nazi death camps to say,
　　amp。They came after the Jews, and I was not a Jew, so, I did not protest. They came after the trade unionists, and I was not a trade unionist, so, I did not protest. Then they came after the Roman Catholics, and I was not a Roman Catholic, so, I did not protest. Then they came after me, and there was no one left to protest.amp。
　　The The lesson history teaches is this: If you believe you are safe, you are at risk. If you do not see this killer stalking your children, look again. There is no family or munity, no race or religion, no place left in America that is safe. Until we genuinely embrace this message, we are a nation at risk.
　　Tonight, HIV marches resolutely toward AIDS in more than a million American homes, littering its pathway with the bodies of the young young men, young women, young parents, and young children. One of the families is mine. If it is true that HIV inevitably turns to AIDS, then my children will inevitably turn to orphans. My family has been a rock of support.
　　My 84yearold father, who has pursued the healing of the nations, will not accept the premise that he cannot heal his daughter. My mother refuses to be broken. She still calls at midnight to tell wonderful jokes that make me laugh. Sisters and friends, and my brother Phillip, whose birthday is today, all have helped carry me over the hardest places. I am blessed, richly and deeply blessed, to have such a family.
　　But not all of you But not all of you have been so blessed. You are HIV positive, but dare not say it. You have lost loved ones, but you dare not whisper the word AIDS. You weep silently. You grieve alone. I have a message for you. It is not you who should feel shame. It is we we who tolerate ignorance and practice prejudice, we who have taught you to fear. We must lift our shroud of silence, making it safe for you to reach out for passion. It is our task to seek safety for our children, not in quiet denial, but in effective action.
　　Someday our children will be grown. My son Max, now four, will take the measure of his mother. My son Zachary, now two, will sort through his memories. I may not be here to hear their judgments, but I know already what I hope they are. I want my children to know that their mother was not a victim. She was a messenger. I do not want them to think, as I once did, that courage is the absence of fear. I want them to know that courage is the strength to act wisely when most we are afraid. I 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 cost.
　　I ask no more of you than I ask of myself or of my children. To the millions of you who are grieving, who are frightened, who have suffered the ravages of AIDS firsthand: Have courage, and you will find support. To the millions who are strong, I issue the plea: Set aside prejudice and politics to make room for passion and sound policy.
　　To my children, I make this pledge: I will not give in, Zachary, because I draw my courage from you. Your silly giggle gives me hope。 and you, my child, give me the reason to say to America, amp。You are at risk.amp。 And I will not rest, Max, until I have done all I can to make your world safe. I will seek a place where intimacy is not the prelude to suffering. I will not hurry to leave you, my children, but when I go, I pray that you will not suffer shame on my account.
　　To all within the sound of my voice, I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word amp。AIDSamp。 when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.
　　God bless the children, and God bless us all.
　　Good night.
英語(yǔ)經(jīng)典演講三：The Four Freedoms　　Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, members of the 77th Congress:
　　I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union. I use the word amp。unprecedentedamp。 because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today.
　　Since the permanent formation of our government under the Constitution in 1789, most of the periods of crisis in our histo