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1、1984 Vice Presidential Nominat geraldine ferraro: 1984 vice presidential nomination acceptance addressladies and gentlemen of the convention:my name is geraldine ferraro. i stand before you to proclaim tonight: america is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. as i stand before the ameri
2、can people and think of the honor this great convention has bestowed upon me, i recall the words of dr. martin luther king jr., who made america stronger by making america more free. he said, occasionally in life there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words. their meaning can only
3、 be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. tonight is such a moment for me.my heart is filled with pride. my fellow citizens, i proudly accept your nomination for vice president of the united states.and i am proud to run with a man who will be one of the great presidents of this century
4、, walter f. mondale. tonight, the daughter of a woman whose highest goal was a future for her children talks to our nations oldest party about a future for us all. tonight, the daughter of working americans tells all americans that the future is within our reach, if were willing to reach for it. ton
5、ight, the daughter of an immigrant from italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.our faith that we can shape a better future is what the american dream is all about. the promise of our country is that the rules are fair. if you work hard and play by the
6、rules, you can earn your share of americas blessings. those are the beliefs i learned from my parents. and those are the values i taught my students as a teacher in the public schools of new york city.at night, i went to law school. i became an assistant district attorney, and i put my share of crim
7、inals behind bars. i believe if you obey the law, you should be protected. but if you break the law, you must pay for your crime.when i first ran for congress, all the political experts said a democrat could not win my home district in queens. i put my faith in the people and the values that we shar
8、ed. together, we proved the political experts wrong. in this campaign, fritz mondale and i have put our faith in the people. and we are going to prove the experts wrong again. we are going to win. we are going to win because americans across this country believe in the same basic dream.last week, i
9、visited elmore, minnesota, the small town where fritz mondale was raised. and soon fritz and joan will visit our family in queens. nine hundred people live in elmore. in queens, there are 2,000 people on one block. you would think we would be different, but were not. children walk to school in elmor
10、e past grain elevators; in queens, they pass by subway stops. but, no matter where they live, their future depends on education, and their parents are willing to do their part to make those schools as good as they can be. in elmore, there are family farms; in queens, small businesses. but the men an
11、d women who run them all take pride in supporting their families through hard work and initiative. on the 4th of july in elmore, they hang flags out on main street; in queens, they fly them over grand avenue. but all of us love our country, and stand ready to defend the freedom that it represents.am
12、ericans want to live by the same set of rules. but under this administration, the rules are rigged against too many of our people. it isnt right that every year the share of taxes paid by individual citizens is going up, while the share paid by large corporations is getting smaller and smaller. the
13、rules say: everyone in our society should contribute their fair share. it isnt right that this year ronald reagan will hand the american people a bill for interest on the national debt larger than the entire cost of the federal government under john f. kennedy. our parents left us a growing economy.
14、 the rules say: we must not leave our kids a mountain of debt.it isnt right that a woman should get paid 59 cents on the dollar for the same work as a man.if you play by the rules, you deserve a fair days pay for a fair days work. it isnt right that, if trends continue, by the year 2021 nearly all o
15、f the poor people in america will be women and children. the rules of a decent society say: when you distribute sacrifice in times of austerity, you dont put women and children first. it isnt right that young people today fear they wont get the social security they paid for, and that older americans
16、 fear that they will lose what they have already earned. social security is a contract between the last generation and the next, and the rules say: you dont break contracts.we are going to keep faith with older americans. we hammered out a fair compromise in the congress to save social security. every group sacrificed to keep the system sound. it is time ronald reagan stopped scaring our senior citizens.it isnt right that y
