这次选举有太多的第一次,有太多的故事将被代代传叙。但是给我印象最深的是一位女性在亚特兰大投下了她的选票,她像千千万万的美国人一样发出自己的声音,除了一点——安·尼克松·库帕(Ann Nixon Cooper)已经106岁了。
She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn’t vote for two reasons — because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
她生于黑暗的奴隶时代,那个时候路上没有汽车,天上也没有飞机。当时的她不能投票,只有两个原因——她的性别和她的肤色。
And tonight, I think about all that she’s seen throughout her century in America — the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can’t, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.
而今晚,我想她一个世纪的经历——心痛与希望;抗争与进步;一次次失败和逆流而上都证明了:我们做得到。
At a time when women’s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.
每一次女性的声音被压制,梦想被摧残,她都看到她们再次站起来,行使自己的权利。我们做得到。
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