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Folks like Lucy Stone and FDR, they didn't get caught up in their egos or their ideology.
像露西·斯通和羅斯福這樣的人，他們并沒有陷入自負或自己的意識形態中。
They didn't say "it's my way or the highway."
他們沒有說，“這是我的路或者高速路。”
Instead, they knew where they wanted to go, and they were strategic and pragmatic about getting there.
相反，他們知道自己想去的地方，為了到達那里，他們具有戰略性并且十分務實。
Because in the end, they understood, as the political scientist Joseph Nye once said,
因為最終，他們明白，正如政治學家約瑟夫·奈所說，
that "The absolutist may avoid the problem of dirty hands, but often at the cost of having no hands at all."
專制者可能會回避臟手問題（按日常道德標準看來是不正當的政治行為），但是常常以無手為代價。
And, graduates, with a degree from this amazing school,
畢業生們，你們取得了這所了不起的大學的學位，
and all the status and connections that degree confers, you don't get to have no hands.
以及這個學位授予的地位和人脈，不要成為無手。
No, you don't get to be precious or cautious or cynical.
不，你不要成為一個矯揉造作、謹慎或憤世嫉俗的人。
No, not when the earth is warming and the oceans are rising. You don't get to be cynical.
不，當你發現全球正在變暖，海平面正在上升，不要憤世嫉俗。
Not when too many young people still languish in communities ripped apart by violence and despair.
當太多的年輕人仍在被暴力和絕望撕扯的社區里掙扎的時候，不要成為無手。
Not when women still make less than men for the same work.
當做同樣的工作，婦女比男性的工資仍要低很多的時候，不要成為無手。
Not when millions of girls across the globe never set foot inside a school.
當全球數以百萬計的女孩從來沒有機會踏進學校的時候，不要成為無手。
No, not when many young people just like you -- the men and women we honor this Memorial Day
當很多像你們一樣的年輕人，他們是我們陣亡紀念日致敬的人，
have sacrificed their lives for your freedom to make your voice heard. You don't get to have no hands.
他們犧牲自己的生命換來你們發出自己聲音的自由的時候，不要成為無手。
