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1、苹果CEO库克华盛顿大学毕业英语演讲稿苹果CEO库克华盛顿大学毕业英语演讲稿Thank you very much President Knapp for that kind intro. Alex, trustees, faculty and deans of the university, my fellow honorees, and especially you the class of 2023. Yes.Before I begin today, they asked me to make a standard announcement. Youve heard this befo
2、re. About silencing your phones. Those of you with an iPhone, just place it in silent mode. If you dont have an iPhone, please pass it to the center aisle. Apple has a world‑class recycling program.You know, this is really an amazing place. And for a lot of you, Im sure that being here in Wash
3、ington, the very center of our democracy, was a big draw when you were choosing which school to go to. This place has a powerful pull. It was here that Dr. Martin Luther King challenged Americans to make real the promises of democracy, to make justice a reality for all of Gods children.I was one of
4、two kids from Baldwin County that was chosen to go to Washington along with hundreds of other kids across the country. Before we left, the Alabama delegation took a trip to our state capitol in Montgomery for a meeting with the governor. The governors name was George C. Wallace. The same George Wall
5、ace who in 1963 stood in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to block African Americans from enrolling. Wallace embraced the evils of segregation. He pitted whites against blacks, the South against the North, the working class against the so‑called elites. Meeting my governor was
6、 not an honor for me.My heroes in life were Dr. Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy, who had fought against the very things that Wallace stood for. Keep in mind, that I grew up, or, when I grew up, I grew up in a place where King and Kennedy were not exactly held in high esteem. When I was a k
7、id, the South was still ing to grips with its history. My textbooks even said the Civil War was about states rights. They barely mentioned slavery.So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that Id learned from my parents,
8、 and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery. I found books in the public library that they probably didnt know they had. They all pointed to the fact that Wallace was wrong. That injustices like segregation had no place in our world. That equality is a right.As I said, I was only 16 when I met Governor Wallace, so I shook his hand as we were expected to do. But shaking his hand felt like a betrayal of my own beliefs. It felt wrong. Like I was selling a piece of my soul.第 页 共 页
