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Now, what did this 92 year-old black woman do that deserved such great honor? What did she do? Well, in 1955, the days of racial segregation, she had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. She had refused. Her simple refusal to move to the back of the bus put into motion events that led to my country’s great civil rights movement. The small protest of a woman that maybe weighed less than 100 lbs. brought down a racist system. As you can see, the individual can make a difference.
這位92歲的黑人婦女到底做了什么竟能獲得如此殊榮？她做過什么？1955年，美國那時(shí)還處于種族隔離時(shí)期，羅莎·帕克斯在公交車上拒絕把座位讓給一個(gè)白人。沒錯(cuò)，她拒絕讓座給白人。她拒絕到公交車尾這一簡單的舉動(dòng)推動(dòng)了美國偉大的民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)的進(jìn)展。一位體重不足100磅的女人的一個(gè)小小的抗議竟瓦解了種族主義制度。由此你們可以看到，個(gè)人可以產(chǎn)生深遠(yuǎn)的影響。
Let me tell you about another individual, Ken Behring, a millionaire California businessman who found his passion in giving wheelchairs to poor and physically disabled people all around the globe, including China. He says that he has met people who have spent years in rooms with no window, just lying there and staring up at the ceiling, never seeing the outside world unless someone was willing to pick up that person and take them outside to show them the world. He says that it’s no wonder so many of those physically disabled people dream about being a bird. Mr. Behring says that most of us think that a wheelchair would be a confinement, but to millions of people it is not a confinement, it is freedom, freedom to move and to go to school, freedom to vote, freedom to get a job, and freedom for hope for the future. He has given freedom and wheelchairs to 400,000 people around the world. The individual can make a difference.
讓我再給你們講述一個(gè)人，這個(gè)人就是加利福利亞州的百萬富翁肯·貝林，他是一位商人，他對(duì)援助輪椅情有獨(dú)鐘，曾向包括中國在內(nèi)的全世界各個(gè)國家的貧困殘疾人捐助輪椅。他說他曾見過一些殘疾人連續(xù)數(shù)年待在沒有窗戶的屋子里面，只是躺在那兒盯著天花板看，看不到外面的世界，除非有人愿意扶起他們，帶他們?nèi)タ赐饷娴氖澜纭Ｋf難怪那么多殘疾人都?jí)粝胫约耗艹蔀橐恢恍▲B呢。貝林先生說，我們大多數(shù)人認(rèn)為輪椅是一個(gè)禁錮，但對(duì)于無數(shù)殘疾人而言，輪椅不是禁錮，而是邁向自由的工具。有了輪椅，他們可以自由行動(dòng)，自由地去學(xué)校，自由地去投票，自由地得到一份工作，甚至自由地暢想未來。他給全世界40萬殘疾人提供了輪椅和自由。個(gè)人可以產(chǎn)生深遠(yuǎn)的影響。
