【正文】 hat star and they have given new meaning to the old values of liberty and justice for are the PartyWe are the Party of the New Freedom, the New Deal, and the New have always been the Party of this year let us offer new hope, new hope to an America uncertain about the present, but unsurpassed in its potential for the all those who are idle in the cities and industries of America let us provide new hope for the dignity of useful have always believed that a basic civil right of all Americans is that their right to earn their own Party of the people must always be the Party of full all those who doubt the future of our economy, let us provide new hope for the reindustrialization of let our vision reach beyond the next election or the next year to a new generation of we could rebuild Germany and Japan after World War II, then surely we can reindustrialize our own nation and revive our inner cities in the 198039。第一篇：美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇1980 DNC Address美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇:1980 DNC AddressTed Kennedy1980 Democratic National Convention Addressdelivered 12 August 1980, New York, NY[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio]Thanks very much, Barbara Mikulski, for your very eloquent, your eloquent legislator, great spokeswoman for economic democracy and social justice in this country, I thank you for your eloquent , things worked out a little different from the way I thought, but let me tell you, I still love New fellow Democrats and my fellow Americans, I have e here tonight not to argue as a candidate but to affirm a 39。m asking youI am asking you to renew the mitment of the Democratic Party to economic am asking you to renew our mitment to a fair and lasting prosperity that can put America back to is the cause that brought me into the campaign and that sustained me for nine months across a 100,000 miles in 40 different had our losses, but the pain of our defeats is far, far less than the pain of the people that I have have learned that it is important to take issues seriously, but never to take ourselves too serious issue before us tonight is the cause for which the Democratic Party has stood in its finest hours, the cause that keeps our Party young and makes it, in the second century of its age, the largest political Party in this republic and the longest lasting political Party on this cause has been, since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the cause of the mon man and the mon mitment has been, since the days of Andrew Jackson, to all those he called “the humble members of societythe farmers, mechanics, and laborers.” On this foundation we have defined our values, refined our policies, and refreshed our I take the unusual step of carrying the cause and the mitment of my campaign personally to our national speak out of a deep sense of urgency about the anguish and anxiety I have seen across speak out of a deep belief in the ideals of the Democratic Party, and in the potential of that Party and of a President to make a I speak out of a deep trust in our capacity to proceed with boldness and a mon vision that will feel and heal the suffering of our time and the divisions of our economic plank of this platform on its face concerns only material things, but it is also a moral issue that I raise has taken many forms over many this campaign and in this country that we seek to lead, the challenge in 1980 is to give our voice and our vote for these fundamental democratic us pledge that we will never misuse unemployment, high interest rates, and human misery as false weapons against us pledge that employment will be the first priority of our economic us pledge that there will be security for all those who are now at work, and let us pledge that there will be jobs for all who are out of work。 all those who work hard for a living wage let us provide new hope that their price of their employment shall not be an unsafe workplace and a death at an earlier all those who inhabit our land from California to the New York Island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf stream waters, let us provide new hope that prosperity shall not be purchased by poisoning the air, the rivers, and the natural resources that are the greatest gift of this must insist that our children and our grandchildren shall inherit a land which they can truly call America the all those who see the worth of their work and their savings taken by inflation, let us offer new hope for a stable must meet the pressures of the present by invoking the full power of government to master increasing candor, we must say that the Federal budget can be balanced only by policies that bring us to a balanced prosperity of full employment and price to all those overburdened by an unfair tax structure, let us provide new hope for real tax of shutting down classrooms, let us shut off tax of cutting out school lunches, let us cut off tax subsidies for expensive business lunches that are nothing more than food stamps for the tax cut of our Republican opponents takes the name of tax reform in is a wonderfully Republican idea that would redistribute ine in the wrong 39。s health shall never depend on the size of a family39。s good enough for you and every family in were someThere were some who said we should be silent about our differences on issues during this convention, but the heritage of the Democratic Party has been a history of fight hard because we care deeply about our principles and did not flee this wele the contrast with the empty and expedient spectacle last month in Detroit where no nomination was contested, no question was debated, and no one dared to raise any doubt or can be proud that we chose a different course and a different can be proud that our Party stands for investment in safe energy, instead of a nuclear future that may threaten the future must not permit the neighborhoods of America to be permanently shadowed by the fear of another Three Mile can be pr