美国前总统克林顿2020年毕业演讲：疫情当前，要敢于直面挑战！（附视频&演讲稿）
受新冠大流行影响， 全美近千万即将毕业的2020届高中和大学毕业生们，没有机会参加现场毕业典礼。多位美国前总统、各行业名人聚在一起线上致辞庆祝，以确保这届毕业生闪耀时刻一样很特别。 新冠给了大家永远不会忘记的毕业机会！尽管人生下一步还不清楚，大家都应融入社区，相信并成就自我！
由CNN组织的“2020届班级”特别毕业典礼还特别邀请到了美国前总统克林顿做毕业演讲致辞。他说：“新冠大流行给了大家永远不会忘记的毕业机会，并进入不确定未来。”“我敦促您接受挑战。世界需要您，您的国家需要您。”“我知道你们遇到了困难，但是你可以应对得很好。请凭借坚强但开放的胸怀和充满温暖的爱心，帮助我们团结在一起。”
"Congratulations to the class of 2020 and all the educators, parents, friends and mentors who helped you reach this milestone.
The coronavirus has given you a graduation you will never forget and it's released you into an uncertain future. I urge you to embrace the challenge. The world needs you. Your country needs you. Even before the outbreak, you knew you were entering a world of growing inequalities, and divisive tribalism, with people pulling away from those who are different from them. Seething resentments and a broken information system have empowered those who for profit and power for themselves, are willing to inflame our worst instincts. It's put your future, our democracy, and our very planet at risk.
In ways large and small, people the world over have been urged to see life as a dog eat dog, zero-sum game. Someone else is winning, you're losing. You can only win if someone else loses. It's fun in sports but bad in an interdependent world.
Now the coronavirus has forced us all to stop business as usual. Step back. It's given us both the chance to see what actually works and the time to go deep inside to decide what we really believe and what kind of world we want to live in. For all the horror and heartbreak, we have also seen the best of humanity and the courage of the first responders, the health care workers and the providers of essential services who risk their lives to provide what we need to take care of the sick and go on with life.
They're a beautiful, diverse lot, of many races and faiths, native born and immigrants with their own diverse, private lives. Every day they remind us just by showing up that what we have in common is more important than our interesting differences, and that we can make the most of our differences only when we work together with dignity and mutual respect.
We have the resources we need to overcome all of these challenges but only if we choose to face them together. I have great faith in you and your future. You know more. You can learn faster. Most of our problems can be thought through and solved or managed much better.
I know you've been dealt a hard hand, but you can play it well. With a tough but open mind and a caring heart, you can help keep us together. Help find ways to serve others, not run away from them. Help to unite, not to divide. Help to build, not tear down. Help to support, not demean. If you do, you will find your own path to fulfillment and happiness and in so doing, your example will inspire the world. Good luck and God speed."
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