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1、-范文最新推荐- The Space Shuttle ladies and gentlemen, i'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. today is a day for mourning and remembering. nancy and i are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shutt
2、le challenger. we know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. this is truly a national loss.nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. but we've never lost an astronaut in flight. we've never had a tragedy like thi
3、s. and perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. but they, the challenger seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. we mourn seven heroes: michael smith, dick scobee, judith resnik, ronald mcnair, ellison onizuka, gregory j
4、arvis, and christa mcauliffe. we mourn their loss as a nation together.for the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. but we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grac
5、e, that special spirit that says, give me a challenge, and i'll meet it with joy. they had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. they wished to serve, and they did. they served all of us.we've grown used to wonders in this century. it's hard to dazzle us. but for twen
6、ty-five years the united states space program has been doing just that. we've grown used to the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. we're still pioneers. they, the members of the challenger crew, were pioneers.and i want to say something to the schoolchildre
7、n of america who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's take-off. i know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. it's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. it's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. the
8、 future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. the challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.i've always had great faith in and respect for our space program. and what happened today does nothing to diminish it. we don't h
9、ide our space program. we don't keep secrets and cover things up. we do it all up front and in public. that's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.we'll continue our quest in space. there will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunte
10、ers, more civilians, more teachers in space. nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue.i want to add that i wish i could talk to every man and woman who works for nasa, or who worked on this mission and tell them: your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decad
11、es. and we know of your anguish. we share it.there's a coincidence today. on this day three hundred and ninety years ago, the great explorer sir francis drake died aboard ship off the coast of panama. in his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, he lived by th
12、e sea, died on it, and was buried in it. well, today, we can say of the challenger crew: their dedication was, like drake's, complete.the crew of the space shuttle challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. we will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this
13、morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of god.thank you. five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of
14、 hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.but one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the negro is still not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is st
15、ill sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languishing in the corners of american society a
16、nd finds himself an exile in his own land. so we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.in a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the declaration of independence, they
17、 were signing a promissory note to which every american was to fall heir. this note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.it is obvious today that america has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of c
18、olor are concerned. instead of honoring this sacred obligation, america has given the negro people a bad check which has come back marked insufficient funds. but we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of o
19、pportunity of this nation. so we have come to cash this check - a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. we have also come to this hallowed spot to remind america of the fierce urgency of now. this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or t
20、o take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of god's children. now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial
21、injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.it would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the negro. this sweltering summer of the negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and eq
22、uality. nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. those who hope that the negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. there will be neither rest nor tranquility in america until the negro is granted his citi
23、zenship rights. the whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.but there is something that i must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. in the process of gaining our rightful pla
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