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1、第 1 页 20XX年英语演讲稿:The Great Society1 特征码 TJzsEKzyajJxSkbZQWRp president hatcher, governor romney, senators mcnamara and hart, congressmen meader and staebler, and other members of the fine michigan delegation, members of the graduating class, my fellow americans: it is a great pleasure to be here tod
2、ay. this university has been coeducational since 1870, but i do not believe it was on the basis of your acplishments that a detroit high school girl said (and i quote), “in choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or an educational school.“ well, we can fi
3、nd both here at michigan, although perhaps at different hours. i came out here today very anxious to meet the michigan student whose father told a friend of mine that his sons education had been a real value. it stopped his mother from bragging about him. i have e today from the turmoil of your capi
4、tal to the tranquility of your campus to speak about the 第 2 页 future of your country. the purpose of protecting the life of our nation and preserving the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happiness of our people. our success in that pursuit is the test of our success as a nation. for a centu
5、ry we labored to settle and to subdue a continent. for half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people. the challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our nationa
6、l life, and to advance the quality of our american civilization. your imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. for in you
7、r time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the great society. the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. it demands an end to poverty and racial i 第 3 页 injustice, to which we are totally mitted in our time. but that
8、 is just the beginning. the great society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. it is a place where leisure is a wele chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. it is a place where the city of man serves not o
9、nly the needs of the body and the demands of merce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for munity. it is a place where man can renew contact with nature. it is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what is adds to the understanding of the race. it is a place where men are more
10、concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods. but most of all, the great society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. it is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning 第 4 页 us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches t
11、he marvelous products of our labor. so i want to talk to you today about three places where we begin to build the great society - in our cities, in our countryside, and in our classrooms. many of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million americans - four
12、-fifths of them in urban areas. in the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes and highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. so in the next 40 years we must re-build the entire urban u
13、nited states. aristotle said: “men e together in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life.“ it is harder and harder to live the good life in american cities today. the catalog of ills is long: there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs
14、. there is not enough housing for our people or transportation for our traffic. open land is van 第 5 页 ishing and old landmarks are violated. worst of all expansion is eroding these precious and time honored values of munity with neighbors and munion with nature. the loss of these values breeds lone
15、liness and boredom and indifference. and our society will never be great until our cities are great. today the frontier of imagination and innovation is inside those cities and not beyond their borders. new experiments are already going on. it will be the task of your generation to make the american
16、 city a place where future generations will e, not only to live, but to live the good life. and i understand that if i stayed here tonight i would see that michigan students are really doing their best to live the good life. this is the place where the peace corps was started. it is inspiring to see
17、 how all of you, while you are in this country, are trying so hard to live at the level of the people. 第 6 页 a second place where we begin to build the great society is in our countryside. we have always prided ourselves on being not only america the strong and america the free, but america the beau
18、tiful. today that beauty is in danger. the water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution. our parks are overcrowded, our seashores overburdened. green fields and dense forests are disappearing. a few years ago we were greatly concerned about the “ugly a
19、merican.“ today we must act to prevent an ugly america. for once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. and once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted. a third place to build the gre
20、at society is in the classrooms of america. there your childrens lives will be shaped. our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. we are still far 第 7 页 from that goal. today, 8 millio n adult americans, more than the ent
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