《The First Great Struggle for the Soul of the 21st Century》歌词

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The First Great Struggle - 英语演讲 [00:00:01]

for the Soul of the 21st Century [00:00:05]

Address by Bill Clinton at Yale University[00:00:08]

Thank you very much, Mr. President, [00:00:12]

thank you for that wonderful introduction. [00:00:16]

And thank you for coming out[00:00:19]

in such large numbers today[00:00:21]

at such an important time for Yale [00:00:23]

and the United States.[00:00:25]

I would like to thank the mayor of[00:00:27]

New Haven, John DeStefano,[00:00:29]

and my great friend and former colleague,[00:00:31]

your member of Congress, Rosa DeLauro,[00:00:34]

for being here.[00:00:37]

I have two other friends,[00:00:38]

who like me are no longer in public office,[00:00:40]

but who made a great difference in[00:00:43]

what we were able to do. Kurt Schmoke,[00:00:45]

the former mayor of Baltimore. [00:00:49]

My great partner, Ernesto Zedillo,[00:00:50]

the former president of Mexico. [00:00:53]

Thank you for being here. [00:00:56]

I also have seen today a lot of people [00:00:58]

who were members of our administration.[00:01:01]

There are five or six of them out there,[00:01:02]

and so I appreciate Yale giving us [00:01:06]

a pretext for holding a Clinton alumni meeting today.[00:01:08]

I was privileged to study here for exactly [00:01:13]

1 percent of Yale's 300 years. [00:01:18]

I loved the law school. [00:01:21]

I liked my professors, and have stayed [00:01:23]

in touch with many of them over all these long years.[00:01:26]

One of them I was able to put on the Court of Appeals.[00:01:29]

One of them I tried to torment in class with disagreements[00:01:33]

and he loved to torment me - [00:01:37]

my constitutional law professor,[00:01:40]

Robert Bork. We had great debates 30 years ago.[00:01:42]

Now that I replay them in my mind,[00:01:47]

they seem fresh today. [00:01:50]

I was fortunate enough to be here at Yale Law School [00:01:52]

with a phenomenal number of outstanding men[00:01:56]

and women who were my fellow students. [00:02:00]

One of them did become the United States senator[00:02:02]

from New York. Senator Schumer went to Harvard.[00:02:05]

Meeting Hillary was the best thing [00:02:10]

that happened to me at Yale, [00:02:12]

and maybe the only thing [00:02:14]

that really stuck over all of these 30 years.[00:02:16]

I understand there was some discussion [00:02:20]

in the Yale community about whether [00:02:25]

this Tercentennial should go forward in [00:02:26]

the aftermath of the awful events of September the 11th.[00:02:30]

I thank you for going forward. [00:02:33]

It is what President Bush asked us to do [00:02:36]

when he asked to us get on with our lives,[00:02:39]

and it is particularly important at this time.[00:02:42]

Marking 300 years of learning at any time [00:02:47]

would be a significant event.[00:02:52]

But marking it at this time, [00:02:54]

with a commitment to be a truly global university, [00:02:57]

is obviously profoundly important.[00:03:00]

For 300 years, beginning three quarters [00:03:03]

of a century before the Declaration of Independence,[00:03:07]

Yale has taught young people the wisdom of the past,[00:03:10]

the analysis of the present and the importance[00:03:13]

of looking to the future. [00:03:17]

Yale has asked hard questions and looked for honest answers. [00:03:19]

That is what I found here 30 years ago, [00:03:24]

and that is what I see[00:03:27]

when I look out on this vast array of faces today.[00:03:29]

America is full of hard questions now.[00:03:33]

I have spent a great deal of the last three weeks [00:03:38]

in Manhattan, visiting the crisis center,[00:03:41]

ground zero, fire stations and police headquarters, [00:03:44]

and three schools - two of them double schools [00:03:47]

because half the children were blown out [00:03:51]

of their own schools by the events of September 11th.[00:03:54]

And I have found so many questions. [00:03:58]

Hillary and I went to an elementary school[00:04:00]

in lower Manhattan, where 9 and 10 years old students [00:04:03]

asked me these questions: [00:04:07]

"Why do they hate us so much anyway?"[00:04:09]

"How did that guy get all those people to commit suicide?" [00:04:11]

I never thought I would hear a 9-year-old[00:04:16]

ask a question like that.[00:04:20]

The other day, I had a conversation with Mack McLarty,[00:04:22]

who was my first chief of staff and my oldest friend of 50 years.[00:04:26]

We were talking about the events of September the 11th.[00:04:31]

We had a conversation I believe thousands and thousands of [00:04:34]

Americans our age have had in the last three weeks.[00:04:39]

I said, "Mack, if we had been on that plane over Pennsylvania,[00:04:42]

do you think we would have [00:04:49]

had the guts to take it down?" [00:04:51]

He said, "I think so, and I hope so."[00:04:52]

I have gotten calls from women friends[00:04:56]

of Hillary's and mine, [00:05:01]

who are mothers of young children [00:05:03]

from all over America with a simple question:[00:05:05]

"Bill, is it going to be all right?[00:05:07]

Tell me it's going to be all right.[00:05:11]

" Well, first of all, it's going to be all right. [00:05:14]

I can tell you that. [00:05:18]

Terrorism - the killing of innocent people[00:05:20]

for political or religious or economic reasons[00:05:23]

- is as old as organized combat. [00:05:26]

It's been around a very long time.[00:05:29]

If we look through history honestly,[00:05:31]

we find it in uncomfortable places.[00:05:34]

In the Crusade in which the European Christians [00:05:37]

seized Jerusalem, they burned a mosque,[00:05:41]

slaughtered 300 Jews and killed every mother [00:05:44]

and child on the Temple Mount who was a Muslim.[00:05:47]

But no campaign of terror standing on its own,[00:05:51]

without organized military combat, [00:05:54]

has ever succeeded in all of human history. [00:05:56]

Indeed, it is not the purpose of terror[00:06:00]

to succeed militarily. It is the purpose[00:06:03]

of terror to terrify, and I would guess [00:06:07]

that a lot of young people in this audience today [00:06:10]

who have never lived through [00:06:12]

such a difficult crisis have been understandably terrified.[00:06:15]

Our country is highly diverse - [00:06:19]

we have people here today from just about every country,[00:06:23]

every racial and ethnic group[00:06:28]

and every religious heritage. [00:06:30]

What terrorists seek, first of all,[00:06:32]

is to make us afraid of each other.[00:06:35]

And secondly, to make us afraid of the future: [00:06:37]

afraid to plan; afraid to invest, afraid to trust.[00:06:41]

That is what they seek. Therefore, [00:06:46]

terrorism cannot prevail unless we cooperate.[00:06:49]

It is not a military strategy, [00:06:53]

it is a psychological and human one.[00:06:55]

We have to give the people[00:06:58]

who attacked us permission to win, [00:07:01]

and I do not believe we are about to [00:07:02]

grant them that permission.[00:07:06]

Mr. bin Laden and his allies misjudge America.[00:07:07]

They think we are fundamentally a weak,[00:07:12]

greedy, selfish, materialistic people. [00:07:16]

They think we are weakened by our lack of [00:07:18]

a national religion and imposed social order.[00:07:22]

But they are wrong. [00:07:25]

All Americans have been proud in [00:07:27]

these last days of the performance of our leaders,[00:07:32]

from the president, to the governor, [00:07:34]

to the mayor of New York;[00:07:35]

and yes, to the senators. [00:07:37]

I am very proud of my wife [00:07:39]

and her colleagues in the House and the Senate,[00:07:42]

and especially proud of the people.[00:07:44]

Hillary and I went to a Rosh Hashana service[00:07:46]

the other night in our own little village of Chappaqua.[00:07:52]

We lost a person out of the temple on September 11th.[00:07:56]

I met one of the two men there[00:08:00]

who escaped from the 84th floor [00:08:03]

of the World Trade Center carrying [00:08:05]

a disabled woman all the way to safety.[00:08:07]

When I went into the family crisis center at Pier 94,[00:08:10]

a man came up to me and said to me:[00:08:14]

"Why, Mr. President,[00:08:18]

I haven't seen you since Oklahoma City." [00:08:20]

And I said, "How did I see you there?" He said,[00:08:22]

"You came to console me.[00:08:27]

My wife was blown up in the bombing of Oklahoma City[00:08:29]

and I had no one to talk to. [00:08:33]

So when I saw that this happened, [00:08:35]

I told my boss I was taking two weeks off, [00:08:38]

and I got in my car and I drove here.[00:08:41]

I sit here all day, every day talking to people.[00:08:44]

I had no one to talk to and I thought I might be of help."[00:08:48]

I have visited many of the firemen. [00:08:53]

The fire department is a marvelous organization[00:08:57]

in the modern world.[00:09:00]

It's more like a medieval army, [00:09:02]

where instead of sitting behind [00:09:04]

and issuing orders, the leaders lead. [00:09:06]

And so in our fire department,[00:09:10]

we lost the chief, his three top aides, [00:09:12]

the chaplain and over 200 other officers,[00:09:15]

out of 340 killed.[00:09:20]

No one took a backseat when it came to sacrifice.[00:09:21]

I think those who believed [00:09:24]

that this would weaken us have misjudged us.[00:09:26]

All over America, there has been [00:09:29]

a tremendous outpouring of caring -[00:09:32]

over $600 million pledged. [00:09:34]

I thank the workers and the people at Yale [00:09:37]

for the work you did,[00:09:40]

for those who lost loved ones [00:09:42]

or feared they had. [00:09:44]

We are going to be all right.[00:09:45]

Still, we must realize [00:09:48]

that we have a formidable adversary [00:09:52]

and a difficult challenge.[00:09:54]

Partly, because in every conflict [00:09:56]

throughout human history, [00:09:59]

defense lags offense by a little bit.[00:10:01]

This has always happened. [00:10:04]

But so far, the human race is still around[00:10:07]

because self-preservation [00:10:11]

and decency catches up and triumphs.[00:10:12]

Nevertheless, I think we have to take this seriously[00:10:15]

and see it for exactly what it is - [00:10:19]

I believe we are engaged in [00:10:21]

the first great struggle for the soul of the 21st century.[00:10:24]

We must understand terrorism in the modern world[00:10:28]

and ask ourselves what we have to do,[00:10:32]

not only to prevent terrorism [00:10:35]

and protect ourselves, but to undermine the conditions[00:10:38]

and attitudes that bring to the terrorists [00:10:43]

their foot soldiers and sympathizers. [00:10:46]

If I had asked you on September 10th[00:10:48]

the following question,[00:10:53]

what would your answer be?[00:10:54]

What is the dominant trait of the world [00:10:56]

in the early 21st century? [00:11:01]

If you are an optimistic person, [00:11:01]

it seems to me you might have given[00:11:05]

one of four answers. You might have said,[00:11:07]

"Well, it's the globalization of the economy[00:11:10]

and culture that has lifted more people [00:11:13]

out of poverty in the last 20 years [00:11:16]

than any time in all history [00:11:18]

and brought America unprecedented opportunity.[00:11:20]

" Or you might have said, if you are a "techie," [00:11:24]

"It is the information technology revolution."[00:11:28]

When I became president in January of 1993, [00:11:32]

there were 50 sites on the World Wide Web.[00:11:37]

When I left office, there were 350 million.[00:11:41]

There was never anything like it[00:11:45]

in the history of communications.[00:11:49]

Or you might have said, if you were a scientist,[00:11:50]

"It's the evolution in the sciences.[00:11:53]

" We're going to find out[00:11:57]

what's in the black holes in the universe.[00:11:59]

Last year, we found two new species of life,[00:12:01]

in previously unexplored river bottoms.[00:12:05]

The human genome has been sequenced[00:12:07]

and soon women will bring home babies[00:12:11]

from the hospital with little gene cards saying,[00:12:13]

"Here are the kid's problems [00:12:16]

and the kid's strengths.[00:12:19]

" Soon babies born in America[00:12:21]

or any country with a good health system [00:12:24]

will have a life expectancy in excess of 90 years.[00:12:27]

We have scientists working on digital chips[00:12:32]

to replicate the nerve functions [00:12:35]

of damaged spinal cords, [00:12:38]

raising the prospect that a chip might[00:12:40]

do for a spine like what a pacemaker [00:12:43]

does for the heart, [00:12:45]

and people thought to be permanently paralyzed[00:12:47]

might get up and walk. [00:12:50]

And all of this is truly amazing. [00:12:52]

Or if you are a political scientist,[00:12:56]

you might say the dominant force of this period[00:13:01]

is the explosion of democracy around the world [00:13:04]

and diversity at home.[00:13:07]

For the first time in human history, [00:13:09]

more than half the world lives under governments [00:13:12]

of their own choosing, and in our country[00:13:16]

and others with strong economies, [00:13:18]

there is an explosion of diversity.[00:13:20]

America is a lot more interesting place[00:13:23]

than it was 30 years ago.[00:13:27]

If we had had this meeting 30 years ago,[00:13:29]

you wouldn't look like you do.[00:13:33]

It's a lot more fun to be here,[00:13:35]

more educational, and more exciting because of that. [00:13:37]

It seems to me if you are optimistic,[00:13:42]

on September 10th, when I said, [00:13:47]

"What is the dominant strength of the 21st century world?"[00:13:49]

you could have given one of those four answers:[00:13:53]

the global economy, the explosion of democracy[00:13:57]

and diversity around the world, [00:14:00]

the information technology explosion,[00:14:02]

the scientific revolution. [00:14:05]

On the other hand,[00:14:08]

if you are a little more pessimistic,[00:14:11]

or if you are what Hillary refers to[00:14:13]

as your family's "designated worrier,"[00:14:15]

you might have mentioned four negative things.[00:14:18]

First, climate change.[00:14:22]

Nine of the hottest years ever recorded [00:14:24]

occurred in the last 12.[00:14:28]

If the climate warms at the same rate [00:14:30]

in the next 50 years as it has in the last 10,[00:14:34]

we will lose several Pacific island nations,[00:14:36]

the Florida Everglades and 50 feet of Manhattan Island.[00:14:39]

Agriculture will be disrupted all over the world,[00:14:44]

creating millions of food refugees. [00:14:48]

There is a terrible water shortage in the world already.[00:14:52]

One in four people on the globe[00:14:56]

never gets a clean glass of water.[00:14:59]

There is a serious deterioration in the quality of our oceans,[00:15:01]

which provide so much of our oxygen. [00:15:05]

If we don't reverse these trends[00:15:08]

we will have terrible problems. [00:15:11]

Or you could say,[00:15:14]

"No, no, before that happens,[00:15:18]

we will be engulfed by health crises."[00:15:20]

This year one in four people in the world[00:15:24]

will die of AIDS, TB, malaria or infections [00:15:27]

related to malaria. [00:15:32]

Thirty-six million people have AIDS.[00:15:34]

The fastest growing rates [00:15:36]

are in the former Soviet Union,[00:15:38]

on Europe's back door, and in the Caribbean, [00:15:41]

on our front door.[00:15:44]

At present trends we will have [00:15:45]

100 million AIDS cases by 2005. [00:15:48]

That is a recipe for turmoil and violence. [00:15:51]

Or you could say,[00:15:56]

"No, the real problem is the flip side of globalization." [00:16:00]

Half the world's people aren't a part of it. [00:16:04]

It is true that more people have been[00:16:07]

lifted out of poverty by globalization [00:16:10]

in the last 20 years than ever before. [00:16:13]

It is also true that half the people [00:16:16]

in the world still live on less than $2 a day, [00:16:20]

that a billion of our people still live on less[00:16:24]

than a dollar a day. [00:16:28]

Think about that the next time [00:16:29]

you buy a cup of coffee. [00:16:32]

A billion go to bed hungry every night.[00:16:33]

That too is a recipe for revolution,[00:16:37]

compounded by the fact that 100 million children[00:16:40]

never go to school at all.[00:16:44]

Or even on September 10th, [00:16:46]

you might have said, [00:16:48]

"No, the biggest problem will be terrorism,[00:16:50]

coupled with weapons of mass destruction,[00:16:53]

rooted in racial and religious and ethnic hatreds." [00:16:56]

Here is what I would like to say: [00:17:00]

Whether you would have given a positive answer,[00:17:04]

or a negative answer,[00:17:08]

there is something that all eight answers[00:17:10]

have in common. [00:17:13]

They all reflect the astonishing increase[00:17:14]

in global interdependence.[00:17:17]

We have seen the collapse of distances [00:17:17]

and barriers bringing us closer together[00:17:22]

for good or ill. [00:17:26]

Terrorism is simply the dark side [00:17:26]

of our increasing interdependence.[00:17:30]

We have not repealed human nature[00:17:32]

or the fact some people see reality[00:17:35]

very differently than we do.[00:17:38]

With more open societies,[00:17:40]

organized forces of destruction simply[00:17:42]

take advantage of the same forces [00:17:46]

that make our lives richer, more diverse and better. [00:17:47]

Therefore, all the great questions of[00:17:52]

the 21st century boil down to one: [00:17:58]

Is this new age going to be good or bad,[00:18:00]

for me, my family, my community, [00:18:04]

my nation and the world?[00:18:07]

That's why Yale's mission in its fourth century, [00:18:10]

to build a truly global university, [00:18:13]

is so important. I was delighted, Mr. President,[00:18:16]

when my former deputy secretary of state[00:18:21]

and my old roommate, Strobe Talbott, [00:18:24]

became the head of your Globalization Center[00:18:27]

and his wife Brooke Shearer agreed [00:18:29]

to run the World Fellows Program. [00:18:32]

I said I would like to be a world fellow,[00:18:34]

and I was informed [00:18:37]

that I no longer qualify as a young world leader.[00:18:39]

So today you are stuck with my opinions [00:18:43]

without the benefit of further Yale study. [00:18:45]

What do we have to do to make sure[00:18:49]

that we encourage the positive forces of interdependence, [00:18:53]

and that we restrain and combat the negative ones? [00:18:57]

I would like to make three points:[00:19:01]

First, we have to defend ourselves against terrorism. [00:19:03]

I want you to know that there are good people,[00:19:08]

lots of them, who have been working on this for years.[00:19:11]

Many, many, more attacks were planned on[00:19:15]

the United States but were thwarted[00:19:18]

by those public servants and our allies.[00:19:20]

During the millennium observances alone, [00:19:23]

there were plans for bombs in cities [00:19:26]

in the northeast and northwest,[00:19:29]

the Los Angeles airport, [00:19:31]

the largest hotel in Jordan, [00:19:33]

a Christian site in the Holy Land[00:19:35]

and a half dozen other sites. [00:19:37]

All thwarted. [00:19:40]

Though good people are working hard,[00:19:43]

clearly there is more to do[00:19:46]

to build our defenses, [00:19:48]

to build our ability to be offensive,[00:19:50]

to build our capacity [00:19:53]

to maximize computer tracking network[00:19:55]

s to stop people who mean us harm.[00:19:58]

I don't want to say more about [00:20:01]

that right now, because the president,[00:20:04]

our national security teams [00:20:06]

and our allies have some tough tactical decisions to make.[00:20:08]

I think we ought to stick with them [00:20:12]

and give them the room they need to make decisions.[00:20:15]

So far, they have been making good decisions [00:20:18]

and we have no reason to believe[00:20:22]

that they won't do so in the future.[00:20:24]

On this, it's important for America to stay united.[00:20:26]

We are now and we must stay that way. [00:20:31]

Again, I know it was frightening [00:20:34]

to have the first massive attack on American soil.[00:20:40]

And nothing can minimize the human loss.[00:20:42]

But let me remind the young people here [00:20:45]

that the century we just left [00:20:49]

was the bloodiest in all human history.[00:20:53]

Twelve million died in World War I,[00:20:54]

20 million between the wars,[00:20:58]

over 20 million in World War II, [00:21:01]

and another 20 million from government oppression after the war,[00:21:06]

not counting the millions[00:21:09]

who died in Korea and Vietnam,[00:21:11]

and later in the senseless slaughters[00:21:13]

from Rwanda and Bosnia. [00:21:15]

The world has never been free of violence.[00:21:17]

Today the price tag on the benefits of [00:21:20]

our interdependent world is greater vulnerability [00:21:23]

to terrorists. But our defenses will catch up.[00:21:28]

What we have to do as citizens [00:21:31]

is to think about what else has to be done,[00:21:32]

what else we personally can do. [00:21:37]

We have to lead an assault[00:21:40]

on the conditions of negative interdependence[00:21:42]

and create more opportunities [00:21:45]

for positive interdependence. [00:21:47]

America should continue to work [00:21:50]

to reduce global poverty[00:21:54]

and spread the benefits of globalization[00:21:56]

to people in countries that haven't felt it,[00:21:59]

with initiatives like more debt relief, [00:22:02]

more micro-credit, more sensible trade policies.[00:22:05]

America should contribute its fair share[00:22:09]

to Secretary-General Kofi Annan's health fund [00:22:14]

to fight the spread of the AIDS epidemic.[00:22:17]

America should deal with the challenge [00:22:20]

of climate change through conservation[00:22:23]

and the development of alternative energy, [00:22:25]

and through helping our friends [00:22:28]

and neighbors throughout the world do the same. [00:22:31]

Finally, let me say that even more important [00:22:33]

than what we do, is who we are. [00:22:39]

We must understand that this present conflict,[00:22:41]

as agonizing as the loss was, [00:22:46]

is about far more than the buildings collapsing[00:22:46]

and the people dying.[00:22:52]

This is about conflict with a global force[00:22:53]

with a fundamentally different view of [00:22:57]

the nature of truth, the value of life, [00:22:59]

the character of human community.[00:23:02]

Mr. bin Laden and the Taliban believe[00:23:04]

they have the truth, [00:23:08]

that everybody who agrees with them is good,[00:23:09]

and everybody who doesn't is evil.[00:23:12]

This great university is dedicated to [00:23:15]

the proposition that nobody has the absolute truth.[00:23:18]

So we all get to vote.[00:23:22]

We have the right to freedom of speech. [00:23:25]

We have the right of freedom of religion.[00:23:28]

We have the right of freedom of assembly. [00:23:31]

And we have the responsibilities of a free people[00:23:33]

because we believe that life is a journey,[00:23:37]

an effort to move closer and closer to the truth.[00:23:41]

But because we are finite, limited human beings,[00:23:44]

we never will achieve it. [00:23:50]

These differences lead to different views[00:23:51]

of the value of human life.[00:23:56]

Because we believe that we are all [00:23:58]

traveling on this journey together,[00:24:01]

we have come, over time, [00:24:03]

more and more to value all lives,[00:24:05]

to think that everybody counts, [00:24:08]

and that everybody deserves a chance. [00:24:10]

Of all the things that I have seen[00:24:13]

and been moved by in the last few weeks,[00:24:17]

the thing I will carry with me to the grave,[00:24:21]

is the lines of the victims' families[00:24:24]

holding their little flyers. [00:24:27]

For days and days, people didn't know[00:24:29]

whether their loved ones were alive [00:24:32]

or dead or even in the building [00:24:34]

when it was hit. [00:24:36]

So they all made up flyers saying: [00:24:38]

this is my wife, my husband, my brother,[00:24:40]

my sister, my mother, my father, my child.[00:24:44]

Here is the picture.[00:24:49]

This is what floor they were on, [00:24:51]

how tall they were, how much they weighed. [00:24:54]

All these people holding the pictures.[00:24:57]

There were Indians, Pakistanis, [00:25:01]

Bangladeshis, Japanese, Chinese, British, [00:25:04]

and German, Mexicans, Chileans. [00:25:08]

There were people from every conceivable religious faith. [00:25:12]

They were all there,[00:25:16]

a stunning rebuke to the people [00:25:17]

who thought they had the right [00:25:20]

to kill them because they had the whole truth. [00:25:22]

So we have very different views[00:25:26]

about the character of community. [00:25:30]

We believe we all do better when we work together. [00:25:31]

And all you have to do in our country[00:25:34]

is to accept the rules of engagement,[00:25:37]

our rules about everybody counting,[00:25:40]

everybody getting a voice, [00:25:43]

everybody getting to vote. [00:25:45]

About showing up every day to do what is right.[00:25:47]

We have the freedom to celebrate[00:25:52]

our diversity because we are grounded in our common humanity.[00:25:54]

Their community is not united by common humanity.[00:25:59]

It is defined by what it is not. [00:26:04]

Mr. bin Laden wants all the Middle East[00:26:08]

to look like the Taliban. [00:26:12]

What a dreary world.[00:26:13]

We have seen on television scenes from [00:26:16]

that movie "Behind the Veil,"[00:26:21]

showing what their beliefs are like,[00:26:21]

forcing women to wear those horrible burqas,[00:26:23]

beating them with sticks in public and worse. [00:26:26]

They are formidable adversaries.[00:26:30]

They do not believe they are evil. [00:26:35]

They believe they are good. [00:26:37]

Therefore the most important thing we can do,[00:26:39]

is to have in our minds clearly the world [00:26:42]

we are trying to make, to affirm[00:26:45]

that our wealth is not an end in itself,[00:26:48]

but a tool to allow people to live up [00:26:51]

to their God-given abilities, [00:26:54]

to keep struggling to get beyond [00:26:56]

those categories of difference to our common humanity.[00:26:59]

And we should never be blind to [00:27:02]

how difficult it is going to be. [00:27:06]

Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years:[00:27:08]

Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, [00:27:12]

but one of his own Hindus, [00:27:16]

who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, [00:27:19]

the Sikhs, for everybody;[00:27:22]

Sadat, killed by the organization [00:27:25]

that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, [00:27:27]

not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian.[00:27:31]

My friend Yitzhak Rabin - [00:27:35]

after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -[00:27:37]

not by a Palestinian terrorist, [00:27:41]

but an angry Israeli because he wanted to [00:27:43]

lay down arms and take up peace.[00:27:46]

This is hard. I thank God [00:27:49]

that of all the great spirits of the last 50 years,[00:27:53]

Mandela survived, probably only[00:27:56]

because he first had to pay with[00:28:00]

27 years of his life in jail. [00:28:02]

Fanatics are defined by their hatreds;[00:28:05]

free people by their humanity. [00:28:10]

Throughout our history,[00:28:12]

America's mission has been to widen the circle of opportunity, [00:28:17]

to deepen the meaning of freedom, [00:28:21]

to strengthen the bonds of community.[00:28:24]

Now, even beyond our borders, [00:28:27]

we can no longer deny to others what we claim for ourselves.[00:28:30]

That is the ultimate lesson for the interdependent world. [00:28:34]

We are going to get through this crisis.[00:28:39]

Our leaders are going to make good decisions. [00:28:42]

But in the end,[00:28:46]

we not only have to stop bad things from happening, [00:28:48]

we have to build for you, the best, [00:28:51]

the most prosperous, [00:28:55]

the most peaceful and most exciting time the world has ever known.[00:28:56]

And we can do it, if we remember who we are and what we believe. [00:29:02]

Thank you and God bless you.[00:29:08]