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1、.精品文档 .奥巴马告别演讲稿英文版找不到奥巴马告别的英文版演讲稿吗本文是小编为大家整理的奥巴马告别演讲稿英文版，仅供参考借鉴，希望可以帮助到大家。It s good tobe home. My fellowAmericans, Michelleand I have been so touched by all the wellwishes weve received over the past few weeks. But tonight its my turn to say thanks. Whether we ve seen eyetoeyeor rarelyagreedatall,my

2、 conversationswithyou,theAmerican people in living rooms and schools; atfarms and on factory floors; at diners and on distantoutposts arewhathavekeptme honest,keptmeinspired, and kept me going. Every day, I learned fromyou. You made me a better President, and you made mea better man.I first came to

3、Chicago when I was in my earlytwenties, still trying to figure out who I was; stillsearchingforapurposeto my life.Itwasinneighborhoods not far from here where I began workingwith church groupsin the shadows ofclosedsteelmills.It was on these streets where I witnessed the power offaith, and the quiet

4、 dignity of working people in the2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创1/23.精品文档 .face of struggleand loss.This is where I learnedthatchange onlyhappens when ordinarypeopleget involved,get engaged, and come together to demand it.AftereightyearsasyourPresident,Istillbelieve that. And it s not just my belie

5、f. Its thebeatingheartofourAmericanideaourboldexperiment in selfgovernment.It s the convictionthatwe are allcreatedequal,endowed by our Creatorwithcertainunalienablerights,among them life,liberty,and the pursuitof happiness.It stheinsistencethattheserights,whileselfevident, have never been selfexecu

6、ting; that We,the People, through the instrument of our democracy,can form a more perfect union.This is the great gift our Founders gave us. Thefreedomtochaseourindividualdreams throughoursweat, toil, and imagination and the imperative tostrive together as well, to achieve a greater good.For 240 yea

7、rs, our nations call to citizenshiphas givenwork and purpose to each new generation.It s what led patriots to choose republic over tyranny, pioneers to trek west, slaves to brave that makeshift2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创2/23.railroad to freedom. It s what pulled immigrants andrefugees across oc

8、eans and the Rio Grande, pushed women to reach for the ballot, powered workers to organize.It s why GIs gave their lives at Omaha Beach and IwoJima; Iraq and Afghanistan and why men and womenfrom Selma to Stonewall were prepared to give theirs as well.So that s what we mean when we say America isexc

9、eptional.Not that ournationhas been flawlessfromthe start,but that we have shown thecapacitytochange,and make life better for those who follow.Yes, our progress has been uneven. The work ofdemocracyhasalwaysbeen hard,contentiousandsometimesbloody.For everytwo stepsforward,itoftenfeels we take one st

10、ep back. But the long sweep ofAmericahas been definedby forwardmotion,a constantwidening of our founding creed to embrace all, and notjust some.IfI had toldyou eightyearsago that Americawouldreverse a great recession, reboot our auto industry,and unleash the longest stretch of job creation in ourhis

11、toryif I had told you that we would open up a new2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创3/23.chapterwiththeCuban people,shut down Irans nuclearweapons programwithoutfiringa shot,and takeoutthemastermind of 9/11 ifIhad toldyou thatwe wouldwinmarriageequality,andsecuretherighttohealthinsuranceforanother 20 m

12、illionof ourfellowcitizens youmighthave saidoursightswere seta littletoohigh.But that s what we did. That s what you did. Youwere the change. You answered people s hopes, andbecause of you, by almost every measure, America is abetter, stronger place than it was when we started.In ten days, the world

13、 will witness a hallmark ofourdemocracy: thepeacefultransferof power fromonefreelyelected president to the next. I committed toPresidentElectTrumpthatmyadministrationwouldensurethesmoothestpossibletransition,justasPresident Bush did for me. Because it s up to all ofus to make sure our government can

14、 helpus meet themanychallenges we still face.We have what we need todo so. Afterall,we remainthewealthiest,mostpowerful,andmostrespectednationon Earth.Our youthand drive,our diversityand2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创4/23.精品文档 .openness,ourboundlesscapacityforriskandreinvention mean that the future

15、 should be ours.But that potential will be realized only if ourdemocracyworks.Onlyifourpoliticsreflectsthedecency of the our people.Only ifallof us, regardlessof our party affiliation or particular interest, helprestore the sense of common purpose that we so badlyneed right now.That s what I want to

16、 focus on tonight thestateof our democracy.Understand,democracy does not requireuniformity.Our founders quarreled and compromised, and expectedus to do the same. But they knew that democracy doesrequire a basic sense of solidarity the idea thatfor all our outward differences, we are all in thistoget

17、her; that we rise or fall as one.There have been moments throughoutour historythatthreatened to rupture that solidarity. The beginningof thiscenturyhas been one of those times.A shrinkingworld, growing inequality; demographic change and thespecter of terrorism these forces haven t justtested our sec

18、urity and prosperity, but our democracy2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创5/23.精品文档 .aswell.And how we meet thesechallengestoourdemocracy will determine our ability to educate ourkids, and create good jobs, and protect our homeland.In other words, it will determine our future.Our democracy won t work w

19、ithout a sense thateveryone has economic opportunity. Today, the economyisgrowing again;wages,incomes,home values,andretirementaccountsarerisingagain;povertyisfalling again. The wealthy are paying a fairer shareoftaxeseven as thestockmarketshattersrecords.Theunemployment rate isneara tenyearlow. The

20、 uninsuredrate has never, ever been lower. Health care costs arerisingatthe slowestratein fiftyyears.And ifanyonecan puttogethera plan thatis demonstrablybetterthantheimprovementsweve made toourhealthcaresystem that covers as many people at less cost I willpublicly support it.That,afterall,is why we

21、 serve tomake people s lives better, not worse.But for all the real progress weve made, we knowit s not enough. Our economy doesn t work as well orgrow as fast when a few prosper at the expense of a2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创6/23.精品文档 .growingmiddleclass.Butstark inequalityisalsocorrosive to ou

22、r democratic principles. While the topone percent has amassed a bigger share of wealth andincome, too many families, in inner cities and ruralcounties,have been leftbehind thelaidofffactoryworker;thewaitressandhealthcareworkerwhostruggle to pay the bills convinced that the gameisfixedagainstthem,tha

23、ttheirgovernmentonlyserves the interests of the powerful a recipe formore cynicism and polarization in our politics.There are no quick fixes to this longterm trend.I agree thatourtradeshouldbe fairand not justfree.But the next wave of economic dislocation won t comefrom overseas. It will come from t

24、he relentless paceof automation that makes many good, middleclass jobsobsolete.And so we must forge a new social compact toguaranteeallourkidsthe educationtheyneed; togiveworkersthepower to unionizeforbetter wages;toupdate the socialsafetynettoreflectthe way we livenowandmakemorereformstothetaxcodes

25、ocorporationsand individualswho reapthemost fromthe2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创7/23.精品文档 .new economy don tavoid theirobligationstothecountry that s made their success possible. We canargue abouthow tobest achievethese goals.But we cant be complacent about the goals themselves. For if wedon tcre

26、ateopportunityforallpeople,thedisaffectionand division thathas stalledourprogresswill only sharpen in years to come.There s a second threat to our democracy oneas old as our nation itself. After my election, therewas talkofa postracialAmerica. Such a vision,howeverwellintended, was never realistic.

27、For race remains apotent and often divisive force in our society. Ive lived long enough to know that race relations arebetter than they were ten, or twenty, or thirty yearsago you can see it not just in statistics, but inthe attitudes of young Americans across the politicalspectrum.But we re not whe

28、re we need to be. All of us havemore work to do. After all, if every economic issue isframed as a strugglebetween a hardworkingwhite middleclass and undeserving minorities, then workers of allshadeswillbe leftfightingforscraps whilethe2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创8/23.wealthy withdraw further int

29、o their private enclaves.If we decline to invest in the children of immigrants,just because they don t look like us, we diminish theprospects of our own children because those brownkidswillrepresentalargershareof America sworkforce.And our economy doesn thave to be a zerosumgame. Last year, incomes

30、rose for all races, all agegroups, for men and for women.Goingforward,we mustupholdlawsagainstdiscrimination in hiring, in housing, in educationandthe criminaljusticesystem.That swhatourConstitutionand highestidealsrequire.But laws alonewon t be enough. Heartsmust change. Ifourdemocracyis to work in

31、 this increasingly diverse nation, eachone of us must trytoheed the adviceof one ofthe greatcharactersinAmerican fiction,AtticusFinch,who said“ You never reallyunderstand a person untilyouconsiderthingsfrom hispointof viewuntilyou climbinto his skin and walk around in it.”For blacksand otherminoriti

32、es,itmeans tyingourown struggles for justice to the challenges that a lotof people in this country face the refugee, the2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创9/23.精品文档 .immigrant, the rural poor, the transgender American, and also the middleaged white man who from the outsidemay seem like he s got all the

33、 advantages, but whos seen his world upended by economic, cultural, andtechnological change.For white Americans, it means acknowledging thatthe effects of slavery and Jim Crow didn t suddenlyvanish in the 60s; that when minority groups voicediscontent,they re not justengagingin reverseracismor pract

34、icing political correctness; that when theywage peaceful protest, they re not demanding specialtreatment,buttheequaltreatmentourFounderspromised.FornativebornAmericans,itmeansremindingourselves that the stereotypes about immigrants todaywere said,almostwordforword, about theIrish,Italians, and Poles

35、. America wasn t weakened by thepresenceofthesenewcomers; theyembraced thisnation s creed, and it was strengthened.So regardless of the station we occupy; we have to try harder; to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导

36、写作独家原创10/23.精品文档 .do; that they value hard work and family like we do;that theirchildrenare justas curiousand hopefulandworthy of love as our own.None ofthisis easy. For too many of us, its becomesafer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in ourneighborhoodsorcollegecampuses orplacesofworshipor

37、oursocialmedia feeds,surroundedby peoplewho looklike us and share the same political outlook and neverchallengeourassumptions.Theriseofnakedpartisanship,increasingeconomicandregionalstratification, the splintering of our media into achannel for every taste all this makes this greatsortingseemnatural

38、,eveninevitable.Andincreasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles thatwe accept only information, whether true or not, thatfits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions onthe evidence that s out there.Thistrendrepresentsathirdthreattoourdemocracy.Politicsis a battleof ideas; inthecourseof a he

39、althydebate,we ll prioritizedifferentgoals,and the different means of reaching them. But without some common baseline of facts; without a willingness2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创11/23.精品文档 .toadmitnewinformation,andconcedethatyouropponent is making a fair point, and that science andreason matter,

40、 we ll keep talking past each other,making common ground and compromise impossible.Isn t thatpartofwhatmakespoliticssodispiritingHow can electedofficialsrageaboutdeficits when we propose to spend money on preschoolforkids,butnotwhenwe recuttingtaxesforcorporationsHow do we excuseethicallapsesin our

41、ownparty, but pounce when the other party does the samethingIt s notjustdishonest,thisselectivesortingofthefacts;it s selfdefeating.Because as my motherused to tell me, reality has a way of catching up withyou.Take the challengeof climatechange. In justeightyears, we ve halved our dependence on fore

42、ign oil,doubled our renewable energy, and led the world to anagreement thathas the promise to save thisplanet.Butwithout bolder action, our children won t have timeto debate the existenceof climatechange; they llbebusy dealingwithitseffects:environmentaldisasters,economic disruptions, and waves of c

43、limate refugees2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创12/23.精品文档 .seeking sanctuary.Now, we can and should argueaboutthe bestapproachtotheproblem.Buttosimplydeny theproblemnotonlybetrays future generations; it betrays the essentialspiritofinnovationand practicalproblemsolvingthatguided our Founders.It stha

44、tspirit,bornoftheEnlightenment,thatmade us an economicpowerhouse thespiritthattookflightatKittyHawk and Cape Canaveral;thespiritthatthat cures disease and put a computer in every pocket.It sthatspiritafaithinreason,andenterprise, and the primacy of right over might, thatallowed us to resist the lure

45、 of fascism and tyrannyduringtheGreatDepression,and builda postWorldWarIIorderwithother democracies,an orderbased notjustonmilitarypowerornationalaffiliationsbut onprinciples the rule of law, human rights, freedomsofreligion,speech,assembly,and an independent press.That order is now being challenged

46、 first byviolent fanatics who claim to speak for Islam; morerecentlyby autocratsin foreigncapitalswho see freemarkets,open democracies,and civilsocietyitselfas2016 全新精品资料 - 全新公文范文 -全程指导写作独家原创13/23.精品文档 .a threat to their power. The peril each poses to ourdemocracy is more farreaching than a car bomb

47、 or amissile. It represents the fear of change; the fear ofpeoplewho lookor speak or pray differently;a contemptfor the rule of law that holds leaders accountable; anintoleranceofdissentand freethought;a beliefthatthe sword or the gun or the bomb or propaganda machineistheultimatearbiterofwhat s trueand what s right.Because oftheextraordinarycourageofour men andwomen in uniform, and the intelligence officers, lawenforcement,and diplomatswho supportthem,no foreignterrorist organization has successfully planned andexecuted an attack on our homeland these past eightye