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1、第 1 页 名人演讲:A Tale of Two Cities1 特征码 mtwowPSTfvzmDnUWwtyj Mario Cuomo: “A Tale of Two Cities“ On behalf of the Empire State and the family of New York, I thank you for the great privilege of being able to address this convention. Please allow me to skip the stories and the poetry and the temptation
2、to deal in nice but vague rhetoric. Let me instead use this valuable opportunity to deal immediately with questions that should determine this election and that we all know are vital to the American people. Ten days ago, President Reagan admitted that although some people in this country seemed to b
3、e doing well nowadays, others were unhappy, even worried, about themselves, their families and their futures. The president said that he didnt understand that fear. He said, “Why, this country is a shining city on a hill.“ And the president is right. In many ways we are a shining city on a hill. But
4、 the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in 第 2 页 this citys splendor and glory. A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But theres another city; theres another part to the shinin
5、g the city; the part where some people cant pay their mortgages, and most young people cant afford one, where students cant afford the education they need, and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more f
6、amilies in trouble, more and more people who need help but cant find it. Even worse: There are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses there. And there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesnt show. There are ghettos where thousands of young
7、 people, without a job or an education, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces that you dont see, in the places that you dont visit in your shining city. In fact, Mr. 第 3 页 President, this is a nation -. Mr. President you ought to know that thi
8、s nation is more a “Tale of Two Cities“ than it is just a “Shining City on a Hill.“ Maybe, maybe, Mr. President, if you visited some more places. Maybe if you went to Appalachia where some people still live in sheds, maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steel workers wonder
9、why we subsidized foreign steel. Maybe, maybe, Mr. President, if you stopped in at a shelter in Chicago and spoke to the homeless there; maybe, Mr. President, if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children because you said you needed the money for a tax break for a
10、 millionaire or for a missile we couldnt afford to use. Maybe, maybe, Mr. President. But Im afraid not. Because, the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, that this is how we were warned it would be. President Reagan told us from very the beginning that he believed in a 第 4 页 kind of social Darwinism. Sur
11、vival of the fittest. “Government cant do everything,“ we were told. “So it should settle for taking care of the strong and hope that economic ambition and charity will do the rest. Make the rich richer - and what falls from their table will be enough for the middle class and those who are trying de
12、sperately to work their way into the middle class.“ You know, the Republicans called it trickle-down when Hoover tried it. Now they call it supply side. But its the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded -
13、for the people who are locked out - all they can do is to stare from a distance at that citys glimmering towers. Its an old story. Its as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon tr
14、ain will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the w 第 5 页 eak are left behind by the side of the trail. The strong, the strong they tell us will inherit the land. We Democrats believe in something else. We democrats believe that we can make it all the way wi
15、th the whole family intact. And, we have more than once. Ever since Franklin Roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees - wagon train after wagon train - to new frontiers of education, housing, peace; the whole family aboard, constantly reaching out to extend and
16、 enlarge that family; lifting them up into the wagon on the way; blacks and Hispanics, and people of every ethnic group, and native Americans - all those struggling to build their families and claim some small share of America. For nearly 50 years we carried them all to new levels of fort, and secur
17、ity, and dignity, even affluence. And remember this, some of us in this room today are here only because this nation had that kind of confidence. And it would be wrong to forget that. 第 6 页 So, here we are at this convention to remind ourselves where we e from and to claim the future for ourselves a
18、nd for our children. Today our great Democratic Party, which has saved this nation from depression, from fascism, from racism, from corruption, is called upon to do it again - this time to save the nation from confusion and division, from the threat of eventual fiscal disaster, and most of all from
19、the fear of a nuclear holocaust. Thats not going to be easy. Mo Udall is exactly right, its not going to be easy. In order to succeed, we must answer our opponents polished and appealing rhetoric with a more telling reasonableness and rationality. We must win this case on the merits. We must get the
20、 American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship - to reality, to the hard substance of things. And we will do that not so much with speeches that sound good as with speeches that are good and sound. Not so much with speeches that will bring peop 第 7 页 le to their feet as with speec
21、hes that bring people to their senses. We must make the American people hear our “Tale of Two Cities.“ We must convince them that we dont have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people. Now we will have no chance to do that if what es out of this
22、 convention is a babel of arguing voices. If thats whats heard throughout the campaign - dissident voices from all sides - we will have no chance to tell our message. To succeed we will have to surrender small parts of our individual interests, to build a platform we can all stand on, at once, forta
23、bly - proudly singing out the truth for the nation to hear, in chorus, its logic so clear and manding that no slick mercial, no amount of geniality, no martial music will be able to muffle the sound of the truth. We Democrats must unite. We Democrats must unite so that the entire nation can unite be
24、cause surely the Republicans wont bring this country together. Their policies divide the nation - into the lucky and the left-out, into the royalty and 第 8 页 the rabble. The Republicans are willing to treat that division as victory. They would cut this nation in half, into those temporarily better o
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