演讲文本

Your generation is uniquely poised for success unlike

你们这一代人的成功机会将是最大的

Any generation of African Americans that came before it

比以往任何一代非裔美国人都大

But that doesn't mean we don't have work

但这不意味着我们没事可做了

Because if we're honest with ourselves, we know that too few of our brothers

因为说实话 我们很多兄弟都没有

Have the opportunities that you've had here at Morehouse

你们莫尔豪斯人所拥有的这些机会

In troubled neighborhoods all across this country

国内还存在很多问题社区

Many of them heavily African American

很多这样的社区中都有很多非裔美国人

Too few of our citizens have role models to guide them

我们的公民 很多人都没有楷模指引他们

Communities just a couple miles from my house in Chicago

离我在芝加哥的家只有几英里的社区

Communities just a couple miles from here

离这里只有几英里的社区

They're places where jobs are still too scarce and wages are still too low

这些地方工作机会仍然很少 而且薪水很低

Where schools are underfunded and violence is pervasive

学校条件很差 且暴力无处不在

Where too many of our young men spend their youth not behind a desk in a classroom

我们的很多年轻人 青春都没有挥洒在课桌前

But hanging out on the streets

而是在街头四处游荡

Or brooding behind a jail cell

或是身陷囹圄 反思罪行

My job, as president, is to advocate for policies that

作为总统 我的工作是主张一些政策

Generate more opportunity for everybody

为每个人提供更多机会

Policies that strengthen the middle class

这些政策将巩固中产阶级利益

And give more people the chance to climb their way into the middle class

并让更多人有机会步入中产阶级

Policies that create more good jobs and reduce poverty

这些政策将提供更多好的就业岗位 减少贫穷

And educate more children, and give more families the security of health care

让更多孩子接受教育 让更多家庭具有医疗保障

And protect more of our children from the horrors of gun violence

并保护更多的孩子不受枪械暴力的威胁

That's my job

这就是我的工作

Those are matters of public policy

这些是公共政策事务

And it is important for all of us

这对我们所有人都很重要

人物简介和演讲视频

人物简介

本视频是美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马在莫尔豪斯学院2013年毕业典礼上的演讲。莫尔豪斯学院是美国黑人运动先驱马丁·路德·金的母校，也是一所传统上招收黑人的美国私立男子文理学院。奥巴马作为美国历史上第一位黑人总统，到此鼓励黑人学生。他告诫黑人青年，不要把种族歧视当做个人失败的借口，要努力成为一个好男人、好丈夫、好父亲。