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e example of Harriet Tubman, a heroic New Yorker, a 19th century Moses, who risked her life to bring hundreds of slaves to would say to those who she gathered up in the South where she kept going back year after year from the safety of Auburn, New York, that no matter what happens, they had to keep they heard shouts behind them, they had to keep they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep going to , those aren’t the risks we is more the silence and apathy and indifference that dogs our years ago, I spoke at my own graduation from Wellesley, where I did call on my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability to effect change and instead toembrace the idea that the goal of education should be human liberation and the freedom to practice with all the skill of our being the art of making after all, our fate is to be choose petition over apathy, caring over indifference, vision over myopia, and love over as this is a special time in your lives, it is for me as well because my daughter will be graduating in four weeks, graduating also from a wonderful place with a great education and beginning a new as I think about all the parents and grandparents who are out there, I have a sense of what their hearts are leaping with joy, but it’s hard to keep tears in check because the presence of our children at a time and place such as this is really a fulfillment of our own American , I applaud you and all of your love, mitment and hard work, just as I applaud your daughters and sons for I leave these graduates with the same message I hope to leave with my to to to to the art of making no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep you and God bless you all.第二篇:名人名校勵(lì)志英語(yǔ)演講稿名人名校勵(lì)志英語(yǔ)演講稿:Dare to Compete, Dare to Care 敢于競(jìng)爭(zhēng),勇于關(guān)愛(ài)美國(guó)國(guó)務(wù)卿希拉里It is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at Yale, especially on the occasion of the 300th have had so many memories of my time here, and as Nick was speaking I thought about how I ended up at Yale Law it tells a little bit about how much progress we’ve I think most about when I think of Yale is not just the politically charged atmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that I was at Yale that I began work that has been at the core of what I have cared about ever began working with New Haven legal services representing I studied child development, abuse and neglect at the Yale New Haven Hospital and the Child Study was lucky enough to receive a civil rights internship with Marian Wright Edelman at the Children’s Defense Fund, where I went to work after I experiences fueled in me a passion to work for the benefit of children, particularly the most , looking back, there is no way that I could have predicted what path my life would have didn’t sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, I think I’ll graduate and then I’ll go to work at the Children’s Defense Fund, and then the impeachment inquiry, and Nixon retired or resigns, I’ll go to didn’t think like was taking each day at a , I’ve been very fortunate because I’ve always had an idea in my mind about what I thought was important and what gave my life meaning and set of values and beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacherous sea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that others say about what l should care about and believe passion to succeed at what l thought was important and children have always provided that lone star, that guiding l have that absolute conviction that every child, especially in this, the most blessed of nations that has ever existed on the face of earth, that every child deserves the opportunity to live up to his or her Godgiven you know that belief and convictionit may make for a personal mission statement, but standing alone, not translated into action, it means very little to anyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those I was thinking about running for the United States Senatewhich was such an enormous decision to make, one I never could have dreamed that I would have been making when I was here on campusI visited a school in New York City and I met a young woman, who was a star was there because of Billy Jean King promoting an HBO special about women in sports called “Dare to pete.” It was about Title IX and how we finally, thanks to government action, provided opportunities to girls and women in although I played not very well at intramural sports, I have always been a strong supporter of women in I was introduced by this young woman, and as I went to shake her hand she obviously had been reading the newspapers about people saying I should or shouldn’t run for the I was congratulating her on the speech she had just made and she held onto my hand and she said, “Dare to pete, to pete.”I took that to heart because it is hard to pete sometimes, especially in public ways, when your failures are there for everyone to see and you don’t know what is going to happen from one day to the yet so much of life, whether we like to accept it or not, is peting with ourselves to be the best we can be, being involved in classes or professions or just life, where we know we are peting with took her advice and I did pete because I chose to do the biggest choices that you’ll face in your life will be yours alone to ’m sure you’ll receive good ’re got a great education to go back and reflect about what is right for you, but you eventually will have to choose and I hope that you will dare to by that I don’t mean the kind of cutthroat petition that is too often characterized by what is driving America mean the small voice inside you that says to you, you can do it, you can take this risk, you can take this next it doesn’t mean that once having made that choice you will always fact, you won’ are setbacks and you will experience difficult will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just be knocked out of if you carry with you the