○  英语演讲稿：1984 Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address范文  ○

it isn't right that a woman should get paid 59 cents on the dollar for the same work as a man.

if you play by the rules, you deserve a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. it isn't right that, if trends continue, by the year 2000 nearly all of the poor people in america will be women and children. the rules of a decent society say: when you distribute sacrifice in times of austerity, you don't put women and children first. it isn't right that young people today fear they won't get the social security they paid for, and that older americans fear that they will lose what they have already earned. social security is a contract between the last generation and the next, and the rules say: you don't break contracts.

we are going to keep faith with older americans. we hammered out a fair compromise in the congress to save social security. every group sacrificed to keep the system sound. it is time ronald reagan stopped scaring our senior citizens.

it isn't right that young couples question whether to bring children into a world of 50,000 nuclear warheads. that isn't the vision for which americans have struggled for more than two centuries. and our future doesn't have to be that way. change is in the air, just as surely as when john kennedy beckoned america to a new frontier; when sally ride rocketed into space; and when reverend jesse jackson ran for the office of president of the united states.

by choosing a woman to run for our nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all americans: there are no doors we cannot unlock. we will place no limits on achievement. if we can do this, we can do anything.

tonight, we reclaim our dream. we are going to make the rules of american life work fairly for all americans again. to an administration that would have us debate all over again whether the voting rights act should be renewed and whether segregated schools

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