peace演讲资料整理.pdf

Peace • Each of tonight’s honorees brings courage to their work in the world. Whether its in the business sphere stretching the usual corporate mission like Southern Living at Home and Verizon Wireless; or challenging the status quo of DNA back-logs in rape investigations like LA City councilmember Jack Weiss; or taking on gender-based violence in sports and military culture like Jackson Katz; or volunteering considerable amounts of time and energy to raise awareness and funds to help end violence against women and children like Jehan Agrama or combining celebrity and bravery to speak out and speak up for survivors like Calista Flockhart. And it also takes courage for young people — to tell their stories and share the truth about their lives especially with adults as we have experienced tonight with the Sorting It Out digital stories. It’s a good thing that we have these role models among us. The times we live in demand courage from all of us. Some people are waiting for another Martin Luther King or an Abraham Lincoln, a Harriet Tubman or a Gandhi or that special somebody to show up. What if there isn’t anybody. This is our time. What if it’s up to us? Consider this, an almost unthinkable scenario: A world without violence. Where no child is abused, no wife battered, no friend raped. A world without terror, without threats, without wounds from intentional actions. Where the strong provide for the vulnerable, where the vulnerable become empowered, where every kind of family is safe and secure, and girls and boys and women and men have a fair and equal chance at the pursuit of happiness in a tolerant and talented society. A world without violence. Peace. We can’t even imagine it. — The very thought eludes our grasp. Why is that? Is it our cynicism, a failure of our imagination, burn-out-disappointment seeing too much rea