奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版

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奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版一

宋代：苏轼

壬戌之秋，七月既望，苏子与客泛舟游于赤壁之下。清风徐来，水波不兴。举酒属客，诵明月之诗，歌窈窕之章。少焉，月出于东山之上，徘徊于斗牛之间。白露横江，水光接天。纵一苇之所如，凌万顷之茫然。浩浩乎如冯虚御风，而不知其所止；飘飘乎如遗世独立，羽化而登仙。（冯通：凭）

于是饮酒乐甚，扣舷而歌之。歌曰：“桂棹兮兰桨，击空明兮溯流光。渺渺兮予怀，望美人兮天一方。”客有吹洞箫者，倚歌而和之。其声呜呜然，如怨如慕，如泣如诉；余音袅袅，不绝如缕。舞幽壑之潜蛟，泣孤舟之嫠妇。

苏子愀然，正襟危坐而问客曰：“何为其然也？”客曰：“‘月明星稀，乌鹊南飞。’此非曹孟德之诗乎？西望夏口，东望武昌，山川相缪，郁乎苍苍，此非孟德之困于周郎者乎？方其破荆州，下江陵，顺流而东也，舳舻千里，旌旗蔽空，酾酒临江，横槊赋诗，固一世之雄也，而今安在哉？况吾与子渔樵于江渚之上，侣鱼虾而友麋鹿，驾一叶之扁舟，举匏樽以相属。寄蜉蝣于天地，渺沧海之一粟。哀吾生之须臾，羡长江之无穷。挟飞仙以遨游，抱明月而长终。知不可乎骤得，托遗响于悲风。”

苏子曰：“客亦知夫水与月乎？逝者如斯，而未尝往也；盈虚者如彼，而卒莫消长也。盖将自其变者而观之，则天地曾不能以一瞬；自其不变者而观之，则物与我皆无尽也，而又何羡乎！且夫天地之间，物各有主，苟非吾之所有，虽一毫而莫取。惟江上之清风，与山间之明月，耳得之而为声，目遇之而成色，取之无禁，用之不竭。是造物者之无尽藏也，而吾与子之所共适。”（共适一作：共食）

客喜而笑，洗盏更酌。肴核既尽，杯盘狼籍。相与枕藉乎舟中，不知东方之既白。

翻译

壬戌年秋天，七月十六日，我与友人在赤壁下泛舟游玩。清风阵阵拂来，水面波澜不起。举起酒杯向同伴劝酒，吟诵《明月》中“窈窕”这一章。不一会儿，明月从东山后升起，在斗宿与牛宿之间来回移动。白茫茫的水汽横贯江面，水光连着天际。放纵一片苇叶似的小船随意漂浮，越过浩瀚无垠的茫茫江面。浩浩淼淼好像乘风凌空而行，并不知道到哪里才会停栖，飘飘摇摇好像要离开尘世飘飞而起，羽化成仙进入仙境。

在这时喝酒喝得非常高兴，敲着船边唱起歌来。歌中唱到：“桂木船棹啊香兰船桨，击打着月光下的清波，在泛着月光的水面逆流而上。我的情思啊悠远茫茫，眺望美人啊，却在天的另一方。”有会吹洞箫的客人，配着节奏为歌声伴和，洞箫的声音呜呜咽咽：有如哀怨有如思慕，既像啜泣也像倾诉，余音在江上回荡，像细丝一样连续不断。能使深谷中的蛟龙为之起舞，能使孤舟上的寡妇为之饮泣。

我的神色也愁惨起来，整好衣襟坐端正，向客人问道：“箫声为什么这样哀怨呢？”客人回答：“‘月明星稀，乌鹊南飞’，这不是曹公孟德的诗么？这里向西可以望到夏口，向东可以望到武昌，山河接壤连绵不绝，目力所及，一片郁郁苍苍。这不正是曹孟德被周瑜所围困的地方么？当初他攻陷荆州，夺得江陵，沿长江顺流东下，麾下的战船首尾相连延绵千里，旗子将天空全都蔽住，面对大江斟酒，横执长矛吟诗，本来是当世的一位英雄人物，然而现在又在哪里呢？何况我与你在江中的小洲打渔砍柴，以鱼虾为侣，以麋鹿为友，在江上驾着这一叶小舟，举起杯盏相互敬酒，如同蜉蝣置身于广阔的天地中，像沧海中的一粒粟米那样渺小。唉，哀叹我们的一生只是短暂的片刻，不由羡慕长江的没有穷尽。想要携同仙人携手遨游各地，与明月相拥而永存世间。知道这些终究不能实现，只得将憾恨化为箫音，托寄在悲凉的秋风中罢了。”

我问道：“你可也知道这水与月？时间流逝就像这水，其实并没有真正逝去；时圆时缺的就像这月，终究没有增减。可见，从事物易变的一面看来，那么天地间万事万物时刻在变动，连一眨眼的工夫都不停止；而从事物不变的一面看来，万物同我们来说都是永恒的，又有什么可羡慕的呢？何况天地之间，万物各有主宰者，若不是自己应该拥有的，即使一分一毫也不能求取。只有江上的清风，以及山间的明月，听到便成了声音，进入眼帘便绘出形色，取得这些不会有人禁止，感受这些也不会有竭尽的忧虑。这是大自然恩赐的没有穷尽的宝藏，我和你可以共同享受。”

客人高兴地笑了，洗净酒杯重新斟酒。菜肴果品都已吃完，杯子盘子杂乱一片。大家互相枕着垫着睡在船上，不知不觉东方已经露出白色的曙光。

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版二

守株待兔

韩非子·五蠹〔先秦〕

宋人有耕者。田中有株。兔走触株，折颈而死。因释其耒而守株，冀复得兔。兔不可复得，而身为宋国笑。

译文

宋国有个种地的农民，他的田地中有一截树桩。一天，一只跑得飞快的野兔撞在了树桩上，折断了脖子死了。于是，他便放下他的农具日日夜夜守在树桩子旁边，希望能再得到一只兔子。然而野兔是不可能再次得到了，而他自己也被宋国人耻笑。

注释

株：树桩。

走：跑。

触：撞到。

折：折断。

因：于是，就。

释：放，放下。

耒(lěi)：一种农具。

冀：希望。

复：又，再。

得：得到。

身：自己。

为：被，表被动。

赏析

《守株待兔》仅39个字，寓意却很深刻。兔子自己撞死在树桩上，这不过是生活中的一个偶然事件，可农夫却幻想这桩巧事能变成经常发生的事情，所以最后落得个田园荒芜、被人笑话的下场。这个故事揭示了一个道理：不努力，而抱侥幸心理，指望靠好运气过日子，是不会有好结果的。守株待兔的寓言故事也常用于批判那些不知变通、死守教条的思想方法。

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版三

曾子之妻之市，其子随之而泣。其母曰：“女还，顾反为汝杀彘（zhì）。”妻适市来，曾子欲捕彘杀之。妻止之曰：“特与婴儿戏耳。”曾子曰：“婴儿非与戏也。婴儿非有知也，待父母而学者也，听父母之教，今子欺之，是教子欺也。母欺子，子而不信其母，非所以成教也！”遂烹彘也。

（选自战国韩非《韩非子外储说左上》

曾子的`夫人到集市上去赶集，她的孩子哭着也要跟着去。他的母亲对他说：“你先回家待着，待会儿我回来杀猪给你吃。”曾子的夫人到集市上回来，就看见曾子要捉猪去杀。她就劝阻他说：“我只不过是跟孩子开玩笑罢了。”曾子说：“（夫人)这可不能开玩笑啊！孩子不知道（你）在和他开玩笑。孩子没有思考和判断能力，要向父母亲学习，听从父母亲给予的正确的教导。现在你在欺骗他，这就是教育孩子骗人啊！母亲欺骗孩子，孩子就不会再相信自己的母亲了，这不是教育孩子的正确方法啊。”于是曾子把猪给杀了，煮了之后把猪给孩子吃掉了。

（1）曾子（前505～前432）：曾参，春秋末年鲁国人。孔子的弟子，字子舆，被尊称为曾子。性情沉静，举止稳重，为人谨慎，待人谦恭，以孝著称。曾提出“慎终追远，民德归厚“的主张和“吾日三省吾身“的修养方法。据传以修身为主要内容的《大学》是他的作品。

（2）曾子之妻之市：曾子的妻子到集市去。之，前一个作助词“的”，后一个作动词“去”。（3）其子随之而泣：曾子的孩子就哭了。之：指曾子妻子要去市场。（4）女：通“汝”人称代词，你。（5）反：通“返”，返回。

（6）顾反为女杀彘：回头回家时给你杀猪（吃）。彘（zhì）：古代意为“猪”。

（7）适市来，去集市上回来。适：往，到，去。

（8）止：阻止。

（9）特：只不过，只是。

（10）戏：玩笑，戏弄。

（11）非与戏：不可同他开玩笑。戏：开玩笑。

（12）非有知：没有知识，意思是孩子很单纯。

（13）待：依赖。

（14）子：你。对对方的称呼。

（15）是：这。

（16）而：则，就。

（17）非所以成教也：不能把（它）作为教育的方法。

（18）遂：于是。

（19）烹(pēng)：煮。

曾子为了不失信于小孩，竟真的把猪杀了煮给孩子吃，目的在于用诚实守信的人生态度去教育后代、影响后代。体现了儒家“言必信”的道德理念。但这不见得是韩非此则寓言的原意，韩非子的原意不过是宣扬他的重法守信的法制思想，要统治者制定严酷的法律，然后有法必依，执法必严，违法必究。

道理

教育儿童言行一致，家长不能信口开河，要有言必行。只有言传身教，才能使孩子诚实无欺。曾子为了不失信于小孩，竟真的把猪杀了煮给孩子吃，目的在于用诚实守信的人生态度去教育后代、影响后代。但这不见得是韩非此则寓言的原意，韩非子的原意不过是宣扬他的重法守信的法制思想，要统治者制定严酷的法律，然后有法可依，有法必依，执法必严。

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版四

唐代：刘禹锡

山不在高，有仙则名。水不在深，有龙则灵。斯是陋室，惟吾德馨。苔痕上阶绿，草色入帘青。谈笑有鸿儒，往来无白丁。可以调素琴，阅金经。无丝竹之乱耳，无案牍之劳形。南阳诸葛庐，西蜀子云亭。孔子云：何陋之有？

译文

山不在于高，有了神仙就会有名气。水不在于深，有了龙就会有灵气。这是简陋的房子，只是我品德好就感觉不到简陋了。苔痕碧绿，长到台上，草色青葱，映入帘里。到这里谈笑的都是博学之人，交往的没有知识浅薄之人，可以弹奏不加装饰的琴，阅读佛经。没有弦管奏乐的声音扰乱耳朵，没有官府的公文使身体劳累。南阳有诸葛亮的草庐，西蜀有扬子云的亭子。孔子说：这有什么简陋的呢？

赏析

这篇不足百字的室铭，含而不露地表现了作者安贫乐道、洁身自好的高雅志趣和不与世事沉浮的独立人格。它向人们揭示了这样一个道理：尽管居室简陋、物质匮乏，但只要居室主人品德高尚、生活充实，那就会满屋生香，处处可见雅趣逸志，自有一种超越物质的神奇精神力量。

有人认为，刘禹锡写此文时已是贬谪生活的后期，心情比较稳定，追求安乐恬淡的生活，同时文中又有读佛经的内容，所以铭文流露了一种避世消闲的消极成分。对此应从两方面分析：当社会处于黑暗时期，文人官吏们有两个出路，一是与腐朽势力同流合污、自甘堕落。一是退一步，如孟子所说的“穷则独善其身”，保持自己的浩然正气和独立人格。相比之下，后者更值得肯定，刘禹锡选择的就是这一条路。同时，人的生活是复杂的，有张有弛，不能一味剑拔弩张，而有时也要休息娱乐。因此，不能简单地批评闲情逸致。另一方面，铭文中也反映了作者的宏伟抱负，他引用诸葛庐和子云亭是有其特殊含义的，诸葛亮是政治家，扬雄是文学家，这也是作者一生的两大理想，早年他在革新中急流勇进、雄心勃勃；贬谪后他就涉足文坛，最后终于以文学家名世。因此，文中还有积极进取的精神在内。

本文在写作上的特点是巧妙地运用比兴手法，含蓄地表达主题，开头四句既是比，又是兴，言山水引出陋室，言仙、龙引出德馨，言名、灵暗喻陋室不陋。用南阳诸葛庐、西蜀子云亭类比陋室，表达了作者政治、文学的两大理想，最后引孔子的话作结又暗含“君子居之”的深意。其次，大量运用了排比、对偶的修辞手法，排比句能造成一种磅礴的文势，如开头几句排比，使全篇文气畅通，确立了一种骈体文的格局。对偶句易形成内容的起伏跌宕，如中间的六句对偶，既有描写又有叙述，言简意丰，节奏感强。文章还运用了代称、引言等修辞手法。

总之，这是一篇思想性和艺术性都很高的佳作，所以能传诵不衰，脍炙人口。

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版五

先秦：孟子及其弟子

鱼，我所欲也；熊掌，亦我所欲也。二者不可得兼，舍鱼而取熊掌者也。生，亦我所欲也；义，亦我所欲也。二者不可得兼，舍生而取义者也。生亦我所欲，所欲有甚于生者，故不为苟得也；死亦我所恶，所恶有甚于死者，故患有所不辟也。如使人之所欲莫甚于生，则凡可以得生者何不用也？使人之所恶莫甚于死者，则凡可以辟患者何不为也？由是则生而有不用也，由是则可以辟患而有不为也。是故所欲有甚于生者，所恶有甚于死者。非独贤者有是心也，人皆有之，贤者能勿丧耳。

一箪食，一豆羹，得之则生，弗得则死。呼尔而与之，行道之人弗受；蹴尔而与之，乞人不屑也。万钟则不辩礼义而受之，万钟于我何加焉！为宫室之美、妻妾之奉、所识穷乏者得我与？乡为身死而不受，今为宫室之美为之；乡为身死而不受，今为妻妾之奉为之；乡为身死而不受，今为所识穷乏者得我而为之：是亦不可以已乎？此之谓失其本心。（与通欤；乡通向；辟通避）

译文

鱼是我所想要的，熊掌也是我所想要的，如果这两种东西不能同时得到，那么我就只好放弃鱼而选取熊掌了。生命是我所想要的，道义也是我所想要的，如果这两样东西不能同时都具有的话，那么我就只好牺牲生命而选取道义了。生命是我所想要的，但我所想要的还有比生命更重要的东西，所以我不做苟且偷生的事。死亡是我所厌恶的，但我所厌恶的还有超过死亡的事，因此有灾祸我也不躲避。如果人们所想要的东西没有能比生命更重要的，那么凡是能够用来求得生存的手段，哪一样不可以采用呢？如果人们所厌恶的事情没有超过死亡的，那么凡是可以躲避祸患的办法什么不可以做呢？采用某种手段就能够活命，可是有的人却不肯采用；采用某种办法就能够躲避灾祸，可是有的人也不肯采用。由此可见，他们所想要的有比生命更宝贵的东西（那就是“义”）；他们所厌恶的，有比死亡更严重的事（那就是“不义”）。不仅贤人有这种本性，人人都有，只不过贤能的人不丧失罢了。

一碗食物，一碗汤，得到它就能活下去，得不到它就会饿死。如果盛气凌人地呼喝着给他吃，饥饿的行人也不愿接受；用脚踢给别人吃，就连乞丐也会因轻视而不肯接受。高官厚禄却不辨是否合乎礼义就接受了它。这样，高官厚禄对我有什么好处呢？是为了住宅的华丽、妻妾的侍奉和认识的穷人感激我吗？以前有人为了大义宁死也不愿接受，现在却为了住宅的华丽却接受了它；以前有人为了大义宁死也不愿接受，现在却为了妻妾的侍奉却接受了它；以前有人为了大义宁死也不愿接受，现在为了认识的穷人感激自己却接受了它。这种行为难道不可以停止吗？这就叫做丧失了人所固有的本性。

简析

本文是孟子以他的性善论为依据，对人的生死观进行深入讨论的一篇代表作。他从人应如何对待自己的欲望入手，在生与死、利与义、守义与失义等方面，层层深入、正反对比地论证了义重于生，必须舍生取义。还强调指出“非独贤者有是心（舍生取义之心）也，人皆有之，贤者能勿丧耳”，人如果经不住万钟、宫室、妻妾、施恩的诱惑，必然会“失其本心（舍生取义之心）”。

《鱼我所欲也》一文用面对鱼和熊掌之间的抉择，比喻面对生命和大义之间的选择，孟子会毅然“舍生而取义者也”。这当中的“义”和文章最后的“此之谓失其本心”的“本心”都是指人的“羞恶之心”（按如今的通俗理解，可以理解为“廉耻之心”）。因为人只有拥有“羞恶之心”，才能分清哪些是道德底线可以承受的事，哪些是道德范围所不接纳的事，哪些是“所欲有甚于生”的事，这样才能不被“宫室之美”、“妻妾之奉”和“所识穷乏者得我”所诱惑，而像“不食嗟来之食”的人一样，内心有一种凛然的“义”。

《鱼我所欲也》一文本身的结构和材料所揭示的中心论点应当是：人皆有“所欲有甚于生，所恶有甚于死”的“本心”，“贤者能勿丧耳”。如果把《鱼》文分成三段来分析，是不难说明这一观点的。本文逻辑严密，析理精深，比喻、排比、对比等修辞手法的运用，使语言生动、流畅，气充词沛，颇具说服力。

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版六

u.s. president barack obama: hello, morehouse! (applause.) thank you, everybody. please be seated.

audience member: i love you!

u.s. president obama: i love you back. (laughter.) that is why i am here.

i have to say that it is one of the great honors of my life to be able to address this gathering here today. i want to thank dr. wilson for his outstanding leadership, and the board of trustees. we have congressman cedric richmond and sanford bishop — both proud alumni of this school, as well as congressman hank johnson. and one of my dear friends and a great inspiration to us all — the great john lewis is here. (applause.) we have your outstanding mayor, mr. kasim reed, in the house. (applause.)

to all the members of the morehouse family. and most of all, congratulations to this distinguished group of morehouse men — the class of 2013. (applause.)

i have to say that it’s a little hard to follow — not dr. wilson, but a skinny guy with a funny name. (laughter.) betsegaw tadele — he’s going to be doing something.

i also have to say that you all are going to get wet. (laughter.) and i’d be out there with you if i could. (laughter.) but secret service gets nervous. (laughter.) so i’m going to have to stay here, dry. (laughter.) but know that i’m there with you in spirit. (laughter.)

some of you are graduating summa cum laude. (applause.) some of you are graduating magna cum laude. (applause.) i know some of you are just graduating, “thank you, lordy.” (laughter and applause.) that’s appropriate because it’s a sunday. (laughter.)

i see some moms and grandmas here, aunts, in their sunday best — although they are upset about their hair getting messed up. (laughter.) michelle would not be sitting in the rain. (laughter.) she has taught me about hair. (laughter.)

i want to congratulate all of you — the parents, the grandparents, the brothers and sisters, the family and friends who supported these young men in so many ways. this is your day, as well. just think about it — your sons, your brothers, your nephews — they spent the last four years far from home and close to spelman, and yet they are still here today. (applause.) so you’ve done something right. graduates, give a big round of applause to your family for everything that they’ve done for you. (applause.)

i know that some of you had to wait in long lines to get into today’s ceremony. and i would apologize, but it did not have anything to do with security. those graduates just wanted you to know what it’s like to register for classes here. (laughter and applause.) and this time of year brings a different kind of stress — every senior stopping by gloster hall over the past week making sure your name was actually on the list of students who met all the graduation requirements. (applause.) if it wasn’t on the list, you had to figure out why. was it that library book you lent to that trifling roommate who didn’t return it? (laughter.) was it dr. johnson’s policy class? (applause.) did you get enough crown forum credits? (applause.)

on that last point, i’m going to exercise my power as president to declare this speech sufficient crown forum credits for any otherwise eligible student to graduate. that is my graduation gift to you. (applause.) you have a special dispensation.

now, graduates, i am humbled to stand here with all of you as an honorary morehouse man. (applause.) i finally made it. (laughter.) and as i do, i’m mindful of an old saying: “you can always tell a morehouse man — (applause) — but you can’t tell him much.” (applause.) and that makes my task a little more difficult, i suppose. but i think it also reflects the sense of pride that’s always been part of this school’s tradition.

benjamin mays, who served as the president of morehouse for almost 30 years, understood that tradition better than anybody. he said — and i quote — “it will not be sufficient for morehouse college, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates — but rather honest men, men who can be trusted in public and private life — men who are sensitive to the wrongs, the sufferings, and the injustices of society and who are willing to accept responsibility for correcting (those) ills.”

it was that mission — not just to educate men, but to cultivate good men, strong men, upright men — that brought community leaders together just two years after the end of the civil war. they assembled a list of 37 men, free blacks and freed slaves, who would make up the first prospective class of what later became morehouse college. most of those first students had a desire to become teachers and preachers — to better themselves so they could help others do the same.

a century and a half later, times have changed. but the “morehouse mystique” still endures. some of you probably came here from communities where everybody looked like you. others may have come here in search of a community. and i suspect that some of you probably felt a little bit of culture shock the first time you came together as a class in king’s chapel. all of a sudden, you weren’t the only high school sports captain, you weren’t the only student council president. you were suddenly in a group of high achievers, and that meant you were expected to do something more.

that’s the unique sense of purpose that this place has always infused — the conviction that this is a training ground not only for inpidual success, but for leadership that can change the world.

dr. king was just 15 years old when he enrolled here at morehouse. he was an unknown, undersized, unassuming young freshman who lived at home with his parents. and i think it’s fair to say he wasn’t the coolest kid on campus — for the suits he wore, his classmates called him “tweed.” but his education at morehouse helped to forge the intellect, the discipline, the compassion, the soul force that would transform america. it was here that he was introduced to the writings of gandhi and thoreau, and the theory of civil disobedience. it was here that professors encouraged him to look past the world as it was and fight for the world as it should be. and it was here, at morehouse, as dr. king later wrote, where “i realized that nobody — was afraid.”

not even of some bad weather. i added on that part. (laughter.) i know it’s wet out there. but dr. wilson told me you all had a choice and decided to do it out here anyway. (applause.) that’s a morehouse man talking.

now, think about it. for black men in the ’40s and the ’50s, the threat of violence, the constant humiliations, large and small, the uncertainty that you could support a family, the gnawing doubts born of the jim crow culture that told you every day that somehow you were inferior, the temptation to shrink from the world, to accept your place, to avoid risks, to be afraid — that temptation was necessarily strong.

and yet, here, under the tutelage of men like dr. mays, young martin learned to be unafraid. and he, in turn, taught others to be unafraid. and over time, he taught a nation to be unafraid. and over the last 50 years, thanks to the moral force of dr. king and a moses generation that overcame their fear and their cynicism and their despair, barriers have come tumbling down, and new doors of opportunity have swung open, and laws and hearts and minds have been changed to the point where someone who looks just like you can somehow come to serve as president of these united states of america. (applause.)

so the history we share should give you hope. the future we share should give you hope. you’re graduating into an improving job market. you’re living in a time when advances in technology and communication put the world at your fingertips. your generation is uniquely poised for success unlike any generation of african americans that came before it.

but that doesn’t mean we don’t have work — because if we’re honest with ourselves, we know that too few of our brothers have the opportunities that you’ve had here at morehouse.

in troubled neighborhoods all across this country — many of them heavily african american — too few of our citizens have role models to guide them. communities just a couple miles from my house in chicago, communities just a couple miles from here — they’re places where jobs are still too scarce and wages are still too low; where schools are underfunded and violence is pervasive; where too many of our men spend their youth not behind a desk in a classroom, but hanging out on the streets or brooding behind a jail cell.

my job, as president, is to advocate for policies that generate more opportunity for everybody — policies that strengthen the middle class and give more people the chance to climb their way into the middle class. policies that create more good jobs and reduce poverty, and educate more children, and give more families the security of health care, and protect more of our children from the horrors of gun violence. that’s my job. those are matters of public policy, and it is important for all of us — black, white and brown — to advocate for an america where everybody has got a fair shot in life. not just some. not just a few. (applause.)

but along with collective responsibilities, we have inpidual responsibilities. there are some things, as black men, we can only do for ourselves. there are some things, as morehouse men, that you are obliged to do for those still left behind. as morehouse men, you now wield something even more powerful than the diploma you’re about to collect — and that’s the power of your example.

so what i ask of you today is the same thing i ask of every graduating class i address: use that power for something larger than yourself. live up to president mays’s challenge. be “sensitive to the wrongs, the sufferings, and the injustices of society.” and be “willing to accept responsibility for correcting (those) ills.”

i know that some of you came to morehouse from communities where life was about keeping your head down and looking out for yourself. maybe you feel like you escaped, and now you can take your degree and get that fancy job and the nice house and the nice car — and never look back. and don’t get me wrong — with all those student loans you’ve had to take out, i know you’ve got to earn some money. with doors open to you that your parents and grandparents could not even imagine, no one expects you to take a vow of poverty. but i will say it betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do. (applause.)

so, yes, go get that law degree. but if you do, ask yourself if the only option is to defend the rich and the powerful, or if you can also find some time to defend the powerless. sure, go get your mba, or start that business. we need black businesses out there. but ask yourselves what broader purpose your business might serve, in putting people to work, or transforming a neighborhood. the most successful ceos i know didn’t start out intent just on making money — rather, they had a vision of how their product or service would change things, and the money followed. (applause.)

some of you may be headed to medical school to become doctors. but make sure you heal folks in underserved communities who really need it, too. for generations, certain groups in this country — especially african americans — have been desperate in need of access to quality, affordable health care. and as a society, we’re finally beginning to change that. those of you who are under the age of 26 already have the option to stay on your parent’s health care plan. but all of you are heading into an economy where many young people expect not only to have multiple jobs, but multiple careers.

so starting october 1st, because of the affordable care act — otherwise known as obamacare — (applause) — you’ll be able to shop for a quality, affordable plan that’s yours and travels with you — a plan that will insure not only your health, but your dreams if you are sick or get in an accident. but we’re going to need some doctors to make sure it works, too. we’ve got to make sure everybody has good health in this country. it’s not just good for you, it’s good for this country. so you’re going to have to spread the word to your fellow young people.

which brings me to a second point: just as morehouse has taught you to expect more of yourselves, inspire those who look up to you to expect more of themselves. we know that too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices. and i have to say, growing up, i made quite a few myself. sometimes i wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. i had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing. but one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is there’s no longer any room for excuses. (applause.)

i understand there’s a common fraternity creed here at morehouse: “excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness.” well, we’ve got no time for excuses. not because the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation have vanished entirely; they have not. not because racism and discrimination no longer exist; we know those are still out there. it’s just that in today’s hyperconnected, hypercompetitive world, with millions of young people from china and india and brazil — many of whom started with a whole lot less than all of you did — all of them entering the global workforce alongside you, nobody is going to give you anything that you have not earned. (applause.)

nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination. and moreover, you have to remember that whatever you’ve gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured — and they overcame them. and if they overcame them, you can overcome them, too. (applause.)

you now hail from a lineage and legacy of immeasurably strong men — men who bore tremendous burdens and still laid the stones for the path on which we now walk. you wear the mantle of frederick douglass and booker t. washington, and ralph bunche and langston hughes, and george washington carver and ralph abernathy and thurgood marshall, and, yes, dr. martin luther king, jr. these men were many things to many people. and they knew full well the role that racism played in their lives. but when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses.

every one of you have a grandma or an uncle or a parent who’s told you that at some point in life, as an african american, you have to work twice as hard as anyone else if you want to get by. i think president mays put it even better: he said, “whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead, and no man yet to be born can do it any better.” (applause.)

and i promise you, what was needed in dr. mays’s time, that spirit of excellence, and hard work, and dedication, and no excuses is needed now more than ever. if you think you can just get over in this economy just because you have a morehouse degree, you’re in for a rude awakening. but if you stay hungry, if you keep hustling, if you keep on your grind and get other folks to do the same — nobody can stop you. (applause.)

and when i talk about pursuing excellence and setting an example, i’m not just talking about in your professional life. one of today’s graduates, frederick anderson — where’s frederick? frederick, right here. (applause.) i know it’s raining, but i’m going to tell about frederick. frederick started his college career in ohio, only to find out that his high school sweetheart back in georgia was pregnant. so he came back and enrolled in morehouse to be closer to her. pretty soon, helping raise a newborn and working night shifts became too much, so he started taking business classes at a technical college instead — doing everything from delivering newspapers to buffing hospital floors to support his family.

and then he enrolled at morehouse a second time. but even with a job, he couldn’t keep up with the cost of tuition. so after getting his degree from that technical school, this father of three decided to come back to morehouse for a third time. (applause.) as frederick says, “god has a plan for my life, and he’s not done with me yet.”

and today, frederick is a family man, and a working man, and a morehouse man. (applause.) and that’s what i’m asking all of you to do: keep setting an example for what it means to be a man. (applause.) be the best husband to your wife, or you’re your boyfriend, or your partner. be the best father you can be to your children. because nothing is more important.

i was raised by a heroic single mom, wonderful grandparents — made incredible sacrifices for me. and i know there are moms and grandparents here today who did the same thing for all of you. but i sure wish i had had a father who was not only present, but involved.

didn’t know my dad. and so my whole life, i’ve tried to be for michelle and my girls what my father was not for my mother and me. i want to break that cycle where a father is not at home — (applause) — where a father is not helping to raise that son or daughter. i want to be a better father, a better husband, a better man.

it’s hard work that demands your constant attention and frequent sacrifice. and i promise you, michelle will tell you i’m not perfect. she’s got a long list of my imperfections. (laughter.) even now, i’m still practicing, i’m still learning, still getting corrected in terms of how to be a fine husband and a good father. but i will tell you this: everything else is unfulfilled if we fail at family, if we fail at that responsibility. (applause.)

i know that when i am on my deathbed someday, i will not be thinking about any particular legislation i passed; i will not be thinking about a policy i promoted; i will not be thinking about the speech i gave, i will not be thinking the nobel prize i received. i will be thinking about that walk i took with my daughters. i’ll be thinking about a lazy afternoon with my wife. i’ll be thinking about sitting around the dinner table and seeing them happy and healthy and knowing that they were loved. and i’ll be thinking about whether i did right by all of them.

so be a good role model, set a good example for that young brother coming up. if you know somebody who’s not on point, go back and bring that brother along — those who’ve been left behind, who haven’t had the same opportunities we have — they need to hear from you. you’ve got to be engaged on the barbershops, on the basketball court, at church, spend time and energy and presence to give people opportunities and a chance. pull them up, expose them, support their dreams. don’t put them down.

we’ve got to teach them just like what we have to learn, what it means to be a man — to serve your city like maynard jackson; to shape the culture like spike lee; to be like chester davenport, one of the first people to integrate the university of georgia law school. when he got there, nobody would sit next to him in class. but chester didn’t mind. later on, he said, “it was the thing for me to do. someone needed to be the first.” and today, chester is here celebrating his 50th reunion. where is chester davenport? he’s here. (applause.)

so if you’ve had role models, fathers, brothers like that — thank them today. and if you haven’t, commit yourself to being that man to somebody else.

and finally, as you do these things, do them not just for yourself, but don’t even do them just for the african american community. i want you to set your sights higher. at the turn of the last century, w.e.b. dubois spoke about the “talented tenth” — a class of highly educated, socially conscious leaders in the black community. but it’s not just the african american community that needs you. the country needs you. the world needs you.

as morehouse men, many of you know what it’s like to be an outsider; know what it’s like to be marginalized; know what it’s like to feel the sting of discrimination. and that’s an experience that a lot of americans share. hispanic americans know that feeling when somebody asks them where they come from or tell them to go back. gay and lesbian americans feel it when a stranger passes judgment on their parenting skills or the love that they share. muslim americans feel it when they’re stared at with suspicion because of their faith. any woman who knows the injustice of earning less pay for doing the same work — she knows what it’s like to be on the outside looking in.

so your experiences give you special insight that today’s leaders need. if you tap into that experience, it should endow you with empathy — the understanding of what it’s like to walk in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, to know what it’s like when you’re not born on 3rd base, thinking you hit a triple. it should give you the ability to connect. it should give you a sense of compassion and what it means to overcome barriers.

and i will tell you, class of 2013, whatever success i have achieved, whatever positions of leadership i have held have depended less on ivy league degrees or sat scores or gpas, and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy — the special obligation i felt, as a black man like you, to help those who need it most, people who didn’t have the opportunities that i had — because there but for the grace of god, go i — i might have been in their shoes. i might have been in prison. i might have been unemployed. i might not have been able to support a family. and that motivates me. (applause.)

so it’s up to you to widen your circle of concern — to care about justice for everybody, white, black and brown. everybody. not just in your own community, but also across this country and around the world. to make sure everyone has a voice, and everybody gets a seat at the table; that everybody, no matter what you look like or where you come from, what your last name is — it doesn’t matter, everybody gets a chance to walk through those doors of opportunity if they are willing to work hard enough.

when leland shelton was four years old — where’s leland? (applause.) stand up, leland. when leland shelton was four years old, social services took him away from his mama, put him in the care of his grandparents. by age 14, he was in the foster care system. three years after that, leland enrolled in morehouse. and today he is graduating phi beta kappa on his way to harvard law school. (applause.) but he’s not stopping there. as a member of the national foster care youth and alumni policy council, he plans to use his law degree to make sure kids like him don’t fall through the cracks. and it won’t matter whether they’re black kids or brown kids or white kids or native american kids, because he’ll understand what they’re going through. and he’ll be fighting for them. he’ll be in their corner. that’s leadership. that’s a morehouse man right there. (applause.)

that’s what we’ve come to expect from you, morehouse — a legacy of leaders — not just in our black community, but for the entire american community. to recognize the burdens you carry with you, but to resist the temptation to use them as excuses. to transform the way we think about manhood, and set higher standards for ourselves and for others. to be successful, but also to understand that each of us has responsibilities not just to ourselves, but to one another and to future generations. men who refuse to be afraid. men who refuse to be afraid.

members of the class of 2013, you are heirs to a great legacy. you have within you that same courage and that same strength, the same resolve as the men who came before you. that’s what being a morehouse man is all about. that’s what being an american is all about.

success may not come quickly or easily. but if you strive to do what’s right, if you work harder and dream bigger, if you set an example in your own lives and do your part to help meet the challenges of our time, then i’m confident that, together, we will continue the never-ending task of perfecting our union.

congratulations, class of 2013. god bless you. god bless morehouse. and god bless the united states of america. (applause.)

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版七

u.s. president barack obama: hello, morehouse! (applause.) thank you, everybody. please be seated.

audience member: i love you!

u.s. president obama: i love you back. (laughter.) that is why i am here.

i have to say that it is one of the great honors of my life to be able to address this gathering here today. i want to thank dr. wilson for his outstanding leadership, and the board of trustees. we have congressman cedric richmond and sanford bishop — both proud alumni of this school, as well as congressman hank johnson. and one of my dear friends and a great inspiration to us all — the great john lewis is here. (applause.) we have your outstanding mayor, mr. kasim reed, in the house. (applause.)

to all the members of the morehouse family. and most of all, congratulations to this distinguished group of morehouse men — the class of 2013. (applause.)

i have to say that it’s a little hard to follow — not dr. wilson, but a skinny guy with a funny name. (laughter.) betsegaw tadele — he’s going to be doing something.

i also have to say that you all are going to get wet. (laughter.) and i’d be out there with you if i could. (laughter.) but secret service gets nervous. (laughter.) so i’m going to have to stay here, dry. (laughter.) but know that i’m there with you in spirit. (laughter.)

some of you are graduating summa cum laude. (applause.) some of you are graduating magna cum laude. (applause.) i know some of you are just graduating, “thank you, lordy.” (laughter and applause.) that’s appropriate because it’s a sunday. (laughter.)

i see some moms and grandmas here, aunts, in their sunday best — although they are upset about their hair getting messed up. (laughter.) michelle would not be sitting in the rain. (laughter.) she has taught me about hair. (laughter.)

i want to congratulate all of you — the parents, the grandparents, the brothers and sisters, the family and friends who supported these young men in so many ways. this is your day, as well. just think about it — your sons, your brothers, your nephews — they spent the last four years far from home and close to spelman, and yet they are still here today. (applause.) so you’ve done something right. graduates, give a big round of applause to your family for everything that they’ve done for you. (applause.)

i know that some of you had to wait in long lines to get into today’s ceremony. and i would apologize, but it did not have anything to do with security. those graduates just wanted you to know what it’s like to register for classes here. (laughter and applause.) and this time of year brings a different kind of stress — every senior stopping by gloster hall over the past week making sure your name was actually on the list of students who met all the graduation requirements. (applause.) if it wasn’t on the list, you had to figure out why. was it that library book you lent to that trifling roommate who didn’t return it? (laughter.) was it dr. johnson’s policy class? (applause.) did you get enough crown forum credits? (applause.)

on that last point, i’m going to exercise my power as president to declare this speech sufficient crown forum credits for any otherwise eligible student to graduate. that is my graduation gift to you. (applause.) you have a special dispensation.

now, graduates, i am humbled to stand here with all of you as an honorary morehouse man. (applause.) i finally made it. (laughter.) and as i do, i’m mindful of an old saying: “you can always tell a morehouse man — (applause) — but you can’t tell him much.” (applause.) and that makes my task a little more difficult, i suppose. but i think it also reflects the sense of pride that’s always been part of this school’s tradition.

benjamin mays, who served as the president of morehouse for almost 30 years, understood that tradition better than anybody. he said — and i quote — “it will not be sufficient for morehouse college, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates — but rather honest men, men who can be trusted in public and private life — men who are sensitive to the wrongs, the sufferings, and the injustices of society and who are willing to accept responsibility for correcting (those) ills.”

it was that mission — not just to educate men, but to cultivate good men, strong men, upright men — that brought community leaders together just two years after the end of the civil war. they assembled a list of 37 men, free blacks and freed slaves, who would make up the first prospective class of what later became morehouse college. most of those first students had a desire to become teachers and preachers — to better themselves so they could help others do the same.

a century and a half later, times have changed. but the “morehouse mystique” still endures. some of you probably came here from communities where everybody looked like you. others may have come here in search of a community. and i suspect that some of you probably felt a little bit of culture shock the first time you came together as a class in king’s chapel. all of a sudden, you weren’t the only high school sports captain, you weren’t the only student council president. you were suddenly in a group of high achievers, and that meant you were expected to do something more.

that’s the unique sense of purpose that this place has always infused — the conviction that this is a training ground not only for inpidual success, but for leadership that can change the world.

dr. king was just 15 years old when he enrolled here at morehouse. he was an unknown, undersized, unassuming young freshman who lived at home with his parents. and i think it’s fair to say he wasn’t the coolest kid on campus — for the suits he wore, his classmates called him “tweed.” but his education at morehouse helped to forge the intellect, the discipline, the compassion, the soul force that would transform america. it was here that he was introduced to the writings of gandhi and thoreau, and the theory of civil disobedience. it was here that professors encouraged him to look past the world as it was and fight for the world as it should be. and it was here, at morehouse, as dr. king later wrote, where “i realized that nobody — was afraid.”

not even of some bad weather. i added on that part. (laughter.) i know it’s wet out there. but dr. wilson told me you all had a choice and decided to do it out here anyway. (applause.) that’s a morehouse man talking.

now, think about it. for black men in the ’40s and the ’50s, the threat of violence, the constant humiliations, large and small, the uncertainty that you could support a family, the gnawing doubts born of the jim crow culture that told you every day that somehow you were inferior, the temptation to shrink from the world, to accept your place, to avoid risks, to be afraid — that temptation was necessarily strong.

and yet, here, under the tutelage of men like dr. mays, young martin learned to be unafraid. and he, in turn, taught others to be unafraid. and over time, he taught a nation to be unafraid. and over the last 50 years, thanks to the moral force of dr. king and a moses generation that overcame their fear and their cynicism and their despair, barriers have come tumbling down, and new doors of opportunity have swung open, and laws and hearts and minds have been changed to the point where someone who looks just like you can somehow come to serve as president of these united states of america. (applause.)

so the history we share should give you hope. the future we share should give you hope. you’re graduating into an improving job market. you’re living in a time when advances in technology and communication put the world at your fingertips. your generation is uniquely poised for success unlike any generation of african americans that came before it.

but that doesn’t mean we don’t have work — because if we’re honest with ourselves, we know that too few of our brothers have the opportunities that you’ve had here at morehouse.

in troubled neighborhoods all across this country — many of them heavily african american — too few of our citizens have role models to guide them. communities just a couple miles from my house in chicago, communities just a couple miles from here — they’re places where jobs are still too scarce and wages are still too low; where schools are underfunded and violence is pervasive; where too many of our men spend their youth not behind a desk in a classroom, but hanging out on the streets or brooding behind a jail cell.

my job, as president, is to advocate for policies that generate more opportunity for everybody — policies that strengthen the middle class and give more people the chance to climb their way into the middle class. policies that create more good jobs and reduce poverty, and educate more children, and give more families the security of health care, and protect more of our children from the horrors of gun violence. that’s my job. those are matters of public policy, and it is important for all of us — black, white and brown — to advocate for an america where everybody has got a fair shot in life. not just some. not just a few. (applause.)

but along with collective responsibilities, we have inpidual responsibilities. there are some things, as black men, we can only do for ourselves. there are some things, as morehouse men, that you are obliged to do for those still left behind. as morehouse men, you now wield something even more powerful than the diploma you’re about to collect — and that’s the power of your example.

so what i ask of you today is the same thing i ask of every graduating class i address: use that power for something larger than yourself. live up to president mays’s challenge. be “sensitive to the wrongs, the sufferings, and the injustices of society.” and be “willing to accept responsibility for correcting (those) ills.”

i know that some of you came to morehouse from communities where life was about keeping your head down and looking out for yourself. maybe you feel like you escaped, and now you can take your degree and get that fancy job and the nice house and the nice car — and never look back. and don’t get me wrong — with all those student loans you’ve had to take out, i know you’ve got to earn some money. with doors open to you that your parents and grandparents could not even imagine, no one expects you to take a vow of poverty. but i will say it betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do. (applause.)

so, yes, go get that law degree. but if you do, ask yourself if the only option is to defend the rich and the powerful, or if you can also find some time to defend the powerless. sure, go get your mba, or start that business. we need black businesses out there. but ask yourselves what broader purpose your business might serve, in putting people to work, or transforming a neighborhood. the most successful ceos i know didn’t start out intent just on making money — rather, they had a vision of how their product or service would change things, and the money followed. (applause.)

some of you may be headed to medical school to become doctors. but make sure you heal folks in underserved communities who really need it, too. for generations, certain groups in this country — especially african americans — have been desperate in need of access to quality, affordable health care. and as a society, we’re finally beginning to change that. those of you who are under the age of 26 already have the option to stay on your parent’s health care plan. but all of you are heading into an economy where many young people expect not only to have multiple jobs, but multiple careers.

so starting october 1st, because of the affordable care act — otherwise known as obamacare — (applause) — you’ll be able to shop for a quality, affordable plan that’s yours and travels with you — a plan that will insure not only your health, but your dreams if you are sick or get in an accident. but we’re going to need some doctors to make sure it works, too. we’ve got to make sure everybody has good health in this country. it’s not just good for you, it’s good for this country. so you’re going to have to spread the word to your fellow young people.

which brings me to a second point: just as morehouse has taught you to expect more of yourselves, inspire those who look up to you to expect more of themselves. we know that too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices. and i have to say, growing up, i made quite a few myself. sometimes i wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. i had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing. but one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is there’s no longer any room for excuses. (applause.)

i understand there’s a common fraternity creed here at morehouse: “excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness.” well, we’ve got no time for excuses. not because the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation have vanished entirely; they have not. not because racism and discrimination no longer exist; we know those are still out there. it’s just that in today’s hyperconnected, hypercompetitive world, with millions of young people from china and india and brazil — many of whom started with a whole lot less than all of you did — all of them entering the global workforce alongside you, nobody is going to give you anything that you have not earned. (applause.)

nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination. and moreover, you have to remember that whatever you’ve gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured — and they overcame them. and if they overcame them, you can overcome them, too. (applause.)

you now hail from a lineage and legacy of immeasurably strong men — men who bore tremendous burdens and still laid the stones for the path on which we now walk. you wear the mantle of frederick douglass and booker t. washington, and ralph bunche and langston hughes, and george washington carver and ralph abernathy and thurgood marshall, and, yes, dr. martin luther king, jr. these men were many things to many people. and they knew full well the role that racism played in their lives. but when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses.

every one of you have a grandma or an uncle or a parent who’s told you that at some point in life, as an african american, you have to work twice as hard as anyone else if you want to get by. i think president mays put it even better: he said, “whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead, and no man yet to be born can do it any better.” (applause.)

and i promise you, what was needed in dr. mays’s time, that spirit of excellence, and hard work, and dedication, and no excuses is needed now more than ever. if you think you can just get over in this economy just because you have a morehouse degree, you’re in for a rude awakening. but if you stay hungry, if you keep hustling, if you keep on your grind and get other folks to do the same — nobody can stop you. (applause.)

and when i talk about pursuing excellence and setting an example, i’m not just talking about in your professional life. one of today’s graduates, frederick anderson — where’s frederick? frederick, right here. (applause.) i know it’s raining, but i’m going to tell about frederick. frederick started his college career in ohio, only to find out that his high school sweetheart back in georgia was pregnant. so he came back and enrolled in morehouse to be closer to her. pretty soon, helping raise a newborn and working night shifts became too much, so he started taking business classes at a technical college instead — doing everything from delivering newspapers to buffing hospital floors to support his family.

and then he enrolled at morehouse a second time. but even with a job, he couldn’t keep up with the cost of tuition. so after getting his degree from that technical school, this father of three decided to come back to morehouse for a third time. (applause.) as frederick says, “god has a plan for my life, and he’s not done with me yet.”

and today, frederick is a family man, and a working man, and a morehouse man. (applause.) and that’s what i’m asking all of you to do: keep setting an example for what it means to be a man. (applause.) be the best husband to your wife, or you’re your boyfriend, or your partner. be the best father you can be to your children. because nothing is more important.

i was raised by a heroic single mom, wonderful grandparents — made incredible sacrifices for me. and i know there are moms and grandparents here today who did the same thing for all of you. but i sure wish i had had a father who was not only present, but involved.

didn’t know my dad. and so my whole life, i’ve tried to be for michelle and my girls what my father was not for my mother and me. i want to break that cycle where a father is not at home — (applause) — where a father is not helping to raise that son or daughter. i want to be a better father, a better husband, a better man.

it’s hard work that demands your constant attention and frequent sacrifice. and i promise you, michelle will tell you i’m not perfect. she’s got a long list of my imperfections. (laughter.) even now, i’m still practicing, i’m still learning, still getting corrected in terms of how to be a fine husband and a good father. but i will tell you this: everything else is unfulfilled if we fail at family, if we fail at that responsibility. (applause.)

i know that when i am on my deathbed someday, i will not be thinking about any particular legislation i passed; i will not be thinking about a policy i promoted; i will not be thinking about the speech i gave, i will not be thinking the nobel prize i received. i will be thinking about that walk i took with my daughters. i’ll be thinking about a lazy afternoon with my wife. i’ll be thinking about sitting around the dinner table and seeing them happy and healthy and knowing that they were loved. and i’ll be thinking about whether i did right by all of them.

so be a good role model, set a good example for that young brother coming up. if you know somebody who’s not on point, go back and bring that brother along — those who’ve been left behind, who haven’t had the same opportunities we have — they need to hear from you. you’ve got to be engaged on the barbershops, on the basketball court, at church, spend time and energy and presence to give people opportunities and a chance. pull them up, expose them, support their dreams. don’t put them down.

we’ve got to teach them just like what we have to learn, what it means to be a man — to serve your city like maynard jackson; to shape the culture like spike lee; to be like chester davenport, one of the first people to integrate the university of georgia law school. when he got there, nobody would sit next to him in class. but chester didn’t mind. later on, he said, “it was the thing for me to do. someone needed to be the first.” and today, chester is here celebrating his 50th reunion. where is chester davenport? he’s here. (applause.)

so if you’ve had role models, fathers, brothers like that — thank them today. and if you haven’t, commit yourself to being that man to somebody else.

and finally, as you do these things, do them not just for yourself, but don’t even do them just for the african american community. i want you to set your sights higher. at the turn of the last century, w.e.b. dubois spoke about the “talented tenth” — a class of highly educated, socially conscious leaders in the black community. but it’s not just the african american community that needs you. the country needs you. the world needs you.

as morehouse men, many of you know what it’s like to be an outsider; know what it’s like to be marginalized; know what it’s like to feel the sting of discrimination. and that’s an experience that a lot of americans share. hispanic americans know that feeling when somebody asks them where they come from or tell them to go back. gay and lesbian americans feel it when a stranger passes judgment on their parenting skills or the love that they share. muslim americans feel it when they’re stared at with suspicion because of their faith. any woman who knows the injustice of earning less pay for doing the same work — she knows what it’s like to be on the outside looking in.

so your experiences give you special insight that today’s leaders need. if you tap into that experience, it should endow you with empathy — the understanding of what it’s like to walk in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, to know what it’s like when you’re not born on 3rd base, thinking you hit a triple. it should give you the ability to connect. it should give you a sense of compassion and what it means to overcome barriers.

and i will tell you, class of 2013, whatever success i have achieved, whatever positions of leadership i have held have depended less on ivy league degrees or sat scores or gpas, and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy — the special obligation i felt, as a black man like you, to help those who need it most, people who didn’t have the opportunities that i had — because there but for the grace of god, go i — i might have been in their shoes. i might have been in prison. i might have been unemployed. i might not have been able to support a family. and that motivates me. (applause.)

so it’s up to you to widen your circle of concern — to care about justice for everybody, white, black and brown. everybody. not just in your own community, but also across this country and around the world. to make sure everyone has a voice, and everybody gets a seat at the table; that everybody, no matter what you look like or where you come from, what your last name is — it doesn’t matter, everybody gets a chance to walk through those doors of opportunity if they are willing to work hard enough.

when leland shelton was four years old — where’s leland? (applause.) stand up, leland. when leland shelton was four years old, social services took him away from his mama, put him in the care of his grandparents. by age 14, he was in the foster care system. three years after that, leland enrolled in morehouse. and today he is graduating phi beta kappa on his way to harvard law school. (applause.) but he’s not stopping there. as a member of the national foster care youth and alumni policy council, he plans to use his law degree to make sure kids like him don’t fall through the cracks. and it won’t matter whether they’re black kids or brown kids or white kids or native american kids, because he’ll understand what they’re going through. and he’ll be fighting for them. he’ll be in their corner. that’s leadership. that’s a morehouse man right there. (applause.)

that’s what we’ve come to expect from you, morehouse — a legacy of leaders — not just in our black community, but for the entire american community. to recognize the burdens you carry with you, but to resist the temptation to use them as excuses. to transform the way we think about manhood, and set higher standards for ourselves and for others. to be successful, but also to understand that each of us has responsibilities not just to ourselves, but to one another and to future generations. men who refuse to be afraid. men who refuse to be afraid.

members of the class of 2013, you are heirs to a great legacy. you have within you that same courage and that same strength, the same resolve as the men who came before you. that’s what being a morehouse man is all about. that’s what being an american is all about.

success may not come quickly or easily. but if you strive to do what’s right, if you work harder and dream bigger, if you set an example in your own lives and do your part to help meet the challenges of our time, then i’m confident that, together, we will continue the never-ending task of perfecting our union.

congratulations, class of 2013. god bless you. god bless morehouse. and god bless the united states of america. (applause.)

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余本愚钝之辈，躬首于阡陌，混迹于江湖。承蒙x总厚爱，垂怜，得以入职，故再三叩谢。昔者于，初遇总，其言犹在耳边，汝若大风起兮之高祖，而余如登台拜将之韩信。

滴水之恩，当涌泉回报，况如此知遇之大恩乎。虽余文不及孔明，武不若子龙，但赤胆忠心，日月可鉴。凡三载以来，无不抱兢兢业业之态、廉洁奉公之准、诚惶诚恐之心，如遇决策无不辗转难寐，唯恐有负诸君之托。上苍亦怜吾，故聚豪杰于而声名达也。

遥想壬辰仲夏，兵强马壮，投鞭止流，其名振大江南北，其声壮塞外边疆。然其兴也勃焉，其亡也忽焉，昔年如依依汉南之柳，而今如枯木之于江潭，何也?

夫余在三载有余，上无业绩回报公司，下无成果以慰总。虽总备尧舜之德、怀仁厚之心，然余亦知尸位素餐之说，故提请辞呈，望批复为盼。

值此阳春三月，草长莺飞，回首三载青春，展望无限光阴，冀吾等勿以此为隙，共创大业亦可期许。

再三叩谢。

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顿首先生、*总足下:

岁末请辞，或属不敬，然吾已思索良久，挣扎月余，终决意就此辞去，另就他途，期与准许。

回顾往昔，初蒙高逸不以余卑鄙，收容门下，此知遇之恩者，于今不敢稍有或忘，是故吾之劳作此司两载，尚可曰尽力尽心也。又忆当初愚钝少年也，空怀一腔之热血、虚兼踌躇之壮志，欲与高逸共升大业，且求殷实生活，以达上不负父母养育之恩、下不负青云之壮志;然今既拜别，思之唏嘘。

今请辞，可为原因者三。

吾实乃高逸一寒士，才浅识陋，幸横蒙高逸诸君发以错爱，荣宠并臻，使吾竟忝列宁波高职，然吾陋识鳏见，弱德少识，驽蹇凡品不称驱驰之辇，楶棁劣材难堪栋梁之柱。 虽戒慎兢业，实已身心俱疲，惟职之相关工作复杂难为，包袱日重，内心压力，有增无减，实难言喻，职虽尽心竭力，然疲乏之心满矣，虽承蒙各方包容，仍有诸多缺憾。尝闻扬雄公《法言r26;吾子》曰："羊质而虎皮，见草而说，见豺而战，忘其皮之虎矣。"今吾居斯位，有似于此。吾岂敢尸位素餐，致分公司不兴而祸延高逸光大事业以蹉跎欤?此吾请辞其一也。

劳苦双载，东奔西顾，未曾少安，绩或无表，无功亦苦，至今年宁波事，吾之惟穷思竭虑，任劳任怨以为，不舍昼夜，未敢有怠慢心。欲以此行以得上君青睐，乃求褒奖，并此后能教吾以丰技、托吾以重事;奈何落花有意，流水无情，公司陟罚臧否，却为异同;吾在工公廉，而俸给淡薄，心悲矣，更兼劳累以至目迷气吁;吾向日与众人论及于此，无不叹息于少年气象之易逝也，呜呼!今始，余之激情当不复见于诸事之中耳，吾之志向亦模糊于理想追求矣。于今思之，以吾之倦怠之躯，往既无益于公司，再处亦有损于己身，是请辞者二也。

常言道，父母在，不远游，期或近之;盖因上亦有高堂，慈严皆过半百。忆吾生时，双亲襁褓提携，历涉艰时，孕哺垂情，躬亲竟日，贞勤坚忍，擅工明理，恺恻博爱，诚实守志。于前月深圳拜见家母，其鬓见白发，垂垂若花甲矣，见之此情，吾落泪矣;思之吾二十岁时，曾对父母诺：吾定当好生发展，以期供奉父母安享晚年;父母年老畏寒，吾二十三岁又诺：待他日殷实之时，爷辈百年以后，迁家于羊城，以求僻寒。吾今日处境，于殷实生活远矣，吾今时处地，离家亦远矣;吾深知："树欲静而风不止，子欲养而亲不待"恐岁月如梭，吾失信于双亲也;此吾请辞其三也。除其而外者，书不尽言，无叙也。

吾今以私虑弃高逸，颇多忐忑，去意生时，悲从心起，心路历程，刀剜爪撕。人生一世，草木一春，草木含情，人岂无义"月明星稀，乌鹊南飞，绕树三匝，何枝可依"此般情境，感受同身。然"嘉树北植，盘桓何益?"?。所幸高逸人才济济，余之离去，料不为大碍也。旬日之间，自可使一切停当，此亦吾所愿也。谨祝诸公事业日新，时有进境，而公司更盛，犹比往昔。呜呼，今当请辞，百感莫辩，为文错乱，辞不达意，万望纳言!

恳赐 钧复

拜上

时丁亥年十一月六戌时

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公司领导：

本人考虑再三，决意就此辞去，另就他途，期与准许。余在公司三载，赖周总相携，诸事顺遂，感念无尽，即今从辞，亦不敢忘;另如李总、朱总，贾总者，平时虽相言不多，交面不繁，然亦长者，体恤良多。及项目组，李、张二经理，不小余智陋，面提耳输，技术、生活多做指点，受益实多，在此无以复言，唯多做感谢，徒表我心。

今辞去，可为原因者三。

有言道，父母在，不远游，期或近之，此其一也;

三年中困守一岗，虽智不逮，未能尽善，然疲乏之心满矣，窃或离之，亦不可得，心灰之，此为其二;

劳苦三载，东奔西顾，未曾少安，绩或无表，无功亦苦，薪给僵持，无期奈何，是者三。除其而外者，书不尽言，无叙也。

辞不达意，万望纳言。

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以上所述，因个人原因，现正式向公司提出辞呈，希望领导给予批准，谢谢。

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应天广运太领导、圣文神武经理：

隆体安康!

下走怀难言之隐,声顿于唇;请不情之请,惭布兹心;飘零之际,去国还乡,惶恐惶恐!乞望伏允?

适留贵司载许,得诸太领导教诲看护,感怀之心,延及梦萦;留恋之尤,唯高经理:予吾契机,载浮载萍;茫然入世,得有所依;栽培如荞,宠信似金;惜吾不器,有负圣心!

人生苦短,弹指一挥:时去一刻,又或三一;命遄不济,永别在即...一枯一荣，皆有定数;吾心尚热,与时俱进;思忖再三,不琢难器,有志如此,无所不弃!

临别之际,有四不舍:......语句重复,恕不再叙......

以上所述,发自真心;如有妄言,天打雷劈!再次请辞,赎罪赎罪!!!

下走

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人生或如登山，仰头望峰高路窄，人云坚持方能登顶;

又 或 如 掘 井，扶锄立石坚泉微，告己专注才可得金。

入职岳法十载，不可谓未坚持，耕耘民商一线，不可谓不专注，诚惶诚恐，未敢失却初心。

初则喜正义之伸张，乐法律得施行，不屑媚俗，安于清贫。久矣疲命于杂务，

掣肘各情形，荒于教子，未尽孝心，今已累案牍，显劳形，业务未见精进，激情日渐消弭。

虽不惧司改，夺员额有信心，然不思钻营，伫山底久矣，再十年当仍如是。

年逾不惑，细思极恐，忧年华不再，登临无期，趁惰形未成，愚勇尚存，下决心，舍法槌于公堂，求自在于市井，不褒獬豸([zhì]，古书上说的没有脚的虫)，不辱女神，既往不悔，当下不疑，未来不迎。

恳请领导准予本人离职。

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版十三

顿首先生、*总足下:

岁末请辞，或属不敬，然吾已思索良久，挣扎月余，终决意就此辞去，另就他途，期与准许。

回顾往昔，初蒙高逸不以余卑鄙，收容门下，此知遇之恩者，于今不敢稍有或忘，是故吾之劳作此司两载，尚可曰尽力尽心也。又忆当初愚钝少年也，空怀一腔之热血、虚兼踌躇之壮志，欲与高逸共升大业，且求殷实生活，以达上不负父母养育之恩、下不负青云之壮志;然今既拜别，思之唏嘘。

今请辞，可为原因者三。

吾实乃高逸一寒士，才浅识陋，幸横蒙高逸诸君发以错爱，荣宠并臻，使吾竟忝列宁波高职，然吾陋识鳏见，弱德少识，驽蹇凡品不称驱驰之辇，楶棁劣材难堪栋梁之柱。 虽戒慎兢业，实已身心俱疲，惟职之相关工作复杂难为，包袱日重，内心压力，有增无减，实难言喻，职虽尽心竭力，然疲乏之心满矣，虽承蒙各方包容，仍有诸多缺憾。尝闻扬雄公《法言r26;吾子》曰："羊质而虎皮，见草而说，见豺而战，忘其皮之虎矣。"今吾居斯位，有似于此。吾岂敢尸位素餐，致分公司不兴而祸延高逸光大事业以蹉跎欤?此吾请辞其一也。

劳苦双载，东奔西顾，未曾少安，绩或无表，无功亦苦，至今年宁波事，吾之惟穷思竭虑，任劳任怨以为，不舍昼夜，未敢有怠慢心。欲以此行以得上君青睐，乃求褒奖，并此后能教吾以丰技、托吾以重事;奈何落花有意，流水无情，公司陟罚臧否，却为异同;吾在工公廉，而俸给淡薄，心悲矣，更兼劳累以至目迷气吁;吾向日与众人论及于此，无不叹息于少年气象之易逝也，呜呼!今始，余之激情当不复见于诸事之中耳，吾之志向亦模糊于理想追求矣。于今思之，以吾之倦怠之躯，往既无益于公司，再处亦有损于己身，是请辞者二也。

常言道，父母在，不远游，期或近之;盖因上亦有高堂，慈严皆过半百。忆吾生时，双亲襁褓提携，历涉艰时，孕哺垂情，躬亲竟日，贞勤坚忍，擅工明理，恺恻博爱，诚实守志。于前月深圳拜见家母，其鬓见白发，垂垂若花甲矣，见之此情，吾落泪矣;思之吾二十岁时，曾对父母诺：吾定当好生发展，以期供奉父母安享晚年;父母年老畏寒，吾二十三岁又诺：待他日殷实之时，爷辈百年以后，迁家于羊城，以求僻寒。吾今日处境，于殷实生活远矣，吾今时处地，离家亦远矣;吾深知："树欲静而风不止，子欲养而亲不待"恐岁月如梭，吾失信于双亲也;此吾请辞其三也。除其而外者，书不尽言，无叙也。

吾今以私虑弃高逸，颇多忐忑，去意生时，悲从心起，心路历程，刀剜爪撕。人生一世，草木一春，草木含情，人岂无义"月明星稀，乌鹊南飞，绕树三匝，何枝可依"此般情境，感受同身。然"嘉树北植，盘桓何益?"?。所幸高逸人才济济，余之离去，料不为大碍也。旬日之间，自可使一切停当，此亦吾所愿也。谨祝诸公事业日新，时有进境，而公司更盛，犹比往昔。呜呼，今当请辞，百感莫辩，为文错乱，辞不达意，万望纳言!

恳赐 钧复

拜上

时丁亥年十一月六戌时

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版十四

应天广运太领导、圣文神武高经理：

隆体安康!

下走怀难言之隐,声顿于唇;请不情之请,惭布兹心;飘零之际,去国还乡,惶恐惶恐!乞望伏允?

适留贵司载许,得诸太领导教诲看护,感怀之心,延及梦萦;留恋之尤,唯高经理:予吾契机,载浮载萍;茫然入世,得有所依;栽培如荞,宠信似金;惜吾不器,有负圣心!

人生苦短,弹指一挥:时去一刻,又或三一;命遄不济,永别在即...一枯一荣，皆有定数;吾心尚热,与时俱进;思忖再三,不琢难器,有志如此,无所不弃!

临别之际,有四不舍:......语句重复,恕不再叙......

以上所述,发自真心;如有妄言,天打雷劈!再次请辞,赎罪赎罪!!!

下走

x年x月x日

再拜

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版十五

乙酉年末，余辞德勤以游。其时，群雄造车，海内未平。或曰：“通用者，东海之主，其势壮焉，其薪双焉，不若往而投之，大业可图。”余善其言，乃以孤穷身入通用事之，历今凡一载有余。其间大小数十战，或盛或衰，或荣或哀，皆犹在目，不足与外人道矣。今既辞归，乃作文志之。

初，拜为报销审核专员，长驻出纳小轩。春秋劳作，不舍昼夜，未敢有怠慢心。乃得识同辈手足数人，兴味相投，遂引为知己。日则埋头于报单之间，午则侃谈于餐堂之上，晌则入账于机声之伴，夜则混沌于班车之颠，朝迎报客，暮送销人，温言笑语，宠辱两忘。凡此琐琐，虽为陈迹，然如影历历，纵无罗缕纪存，亦不能忘矣。嗟夫!今余振衣奋起，环首而视，昔年于小轩共事者，所存不过庄公毅君，谓之“轮岗猛于虎焉”，不为过矣。则虽年光倒流，旧时可再，而亦无与为印证者矣。噫!微斯人，吾谁与归!

越明年，左迁应收账款专员，再迁系统支持专员，从师陈薏出入大小会议。陈师德隆望尊，更兼博学广识，每发议论，左右咸服。或诉辛劳疾苦，师谓余曰：“吾岂不知矣?然吾等此道非常及比，欲通此道，必先备萝卜干饭，啖三年可成”余服其言，乃以师事之，所获甚，故常怀戴德之心。临行，又以良言嘱余。今虽远徙江湖，未敢忘也。

若汪华、谢蔚、陈薏、姚力挽、陶红、高英、虎月姝、吴忱、沈阳、王键、张郚者，庙堂之重臣，通用固所倚也，不以余鄙漏，寄余以大小诸事。余恐托付不效，惟穷思竭虑，谨言慎行以对，幸自度尚不辱使命。每遇不明，则援疑置理，俯身倾耳以请，遂得解。今当奉盏以谢之。

李逸、李瑛、鲁洁、俞洋、姚韶民、黄嵩、郑夏、卢煊春、曹小平、黄莹、沙金，此皆通用之先达，虽才高于世，而无骄尚之情，不以余鲁钝，每请之，必循循而诱。故余虽愚，经年之中，卒获有所闻。今既拜别，思之唏嘘。

胡俊、腾远、李刚、曲逸、严静，皆世之良实，智虑忠纯，余尝与其共谋主数据诸事，故知其能。假以时日，必为股肱之材。余既远游，于君等功名成就时，亦当抚掌相庆之。

杨婷婷、李璟、黄春兰、张凝、苏佳莺、三一八零众贤，久居所中，众皆称其曰能，余常以琐事扰之，众不烦余而以权限馈之，故得其助也甚。犹记当日，挨踢楼中递表索权，每每通之，皆快事也。惜乎，旧事填膺，逼取便逝，惟借影象存照，聊作旧忆耳。

明晓流程，熟稔系统，此固余所得也;目迷发白，体胖气吁，此亦余所失也。余向日与众人论及于此，无不叹息于韶华之易逝也。呜呼!今始，余之名当不复闻于诸人口耳，余之影亦不复见于晨昏星月矣。经年以后，今日得观余言而尚在者复有几人，后继者更胡以知余今日之所言?一别之后，他日或幸遇山水之间，余当执壶备觞，与君等共浮一大白!

今当远离，执笔涕零，不知所言，元章顿首再拜而别。

丙戌年 癸巳月 己丑日

奥巴马胜选演讲稿文言文版十六

应天广运太领导、圣文神武高经理：

隆体安康!

下走怀难言之隐,声顿于唇;请不情之请,惭布兹心;飘零之际,去国还乡,惶恐惶恐!乞望伏允?

适留贵司载许,得诸太领导教诲看护,感怀之心,延及梦萦;留恋之尤,唯高经理:予吾契机,载浮载萍;茫然入世,得有所依;栽培如荞,宠信似金;惜吾不器,有负圣心!

人生苦短,弹指一挥:时去一刻,又或三一;命遄不济,永别在即...一枯一荣，皆有定数;吾心尚热,与时俱进;思忖再三,不琢难器,有志如此,无所不弃!

临别之际,有四不舍:......语句重复,恕不再叙......

以上所述,发自真心;如有妄言,天打雷劈!再次请辞,赎罪赎罪!!!

下走

x年x月x日

再拜