当地时间 1 月 10 日晚 10 点（北京时间 1 月 11 日上午 10 点），奥巴马在芝加哥发表了告别演讲，这场演说被白宫称为“向前看”的演说。在演讲中，他猛烈批评了在美国逐步抬头的种族主义，并称坚决反对歧视穆斯林的行为。以下为英文全文：It’s good to be home. My fellow Americans, Michelle and I have been so touched by all thewell-wishes we’ve received over the past few weeks. But tonight it’s my turn to say thanks.Whether we’ve seen eye-to-eye or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, theAmerican people – in living rooms and schools; at farms and on factory floors; at dinersand on distant outposts – are what have kept me honest, kept me inspired, and kept megoing. Every day, I learned from you. You made me a better President, and you made mea better man.I first came to Chicago when I was in my early twenties, still trying to figure out who I was;still searching for a purpose to my life. It was in neighborhoods not far from here where Ibegan working with church groups in the shadows of closed steel mills. It was on thesestreets where I witnessed the power of faith, and the quiet dignity of working people in theface of struggle and loss. This is where I learned that change only happens when ordinarypeople get involved, get engaged, and come together to demand it.After eight years as your President, I still believe that. And it’s not just my belief. It’s thebeating heart of our American idea – our bold experiment in self-government.It’s the conviction that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certainunalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.It’s the insistence that these rights, while self-evident, have never been self-executing;that We, the People, th...
