艾玛_沃特森2016OneYoungWorld演讲稿.pdfVIP

Emma Watson’s Speech at the One Young World Summit 2016 Ottawa, Canada 28 September 2016 Thank you. (Laughs.) Two years ago, I launched campaign called HeForShe at the UN in New York. I was very nervous before that speech. The nerves were followed by a tremendous high immediately afterwards and a crushing low a few days after that. My best hopes and my worst fears were confirmed all at once. I had opened Pandora ’s Box to a standing ovation and almost simultaneously, a level of critique I had never experienced in my life and the beginning of what would become a series of threats. The last two years have been a baptism of fire, to say the least, where I learned just how little I know and also how much. It was my scary first step as an activist, a word I never imagined that I would use to describe myself. So, reading the applications of activists who apply here for One Young World scholarships was surprising to me. Here I was, reading the stories of people from nearly 200 different countries from around the world with experiences that I couldn ’event imagine. I mean, I really just – they were so out of this world to me. And yet, their notes look like my notes. The same themes emerged over and over and over again. There was so much overlap with the things that I had been thinking about and that I had been struggling with because the truth is, it had never been about being an activist. It was about the choice to make myself visible and the choices that you made to do that, too. Apart from the significant progress the world has made in the cause for equality, the best thing about the last two years has been this: finding people from such disparate experiences and communities that I found that I have something in common with. This is a commun