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《这是一篇演讲》doc版 Fisher 1992年8月在休斯敦举行的共和党大会上发表的。作为一名HIV携带者，她的演讲不仅在当时引发了万千美国人对爱滋病的深层思考；更感染和鼓舞了此后人们对艾滋病人，以及其它弱势群组的理解、关怀和支持。 演讲中，从全球日益严峻的艾滋病形势，到人们相应的冷酷无知的处理态度；从纵向历史的教训警醒人们的关注，到横向家庭的责任突显勇气的可嘉；Mary Fisher雄辩有力、充满激情地表达了“关爱艾滋病人”这个主题。 In the context of an election year, I ask you, here in this great hall, or listening in the quiet of your home, to recognize that AIDS virus is not a political creature. It does not care whether you are Democrat or Republican; it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old. Tonight, I represent an AIDS community whose members have been reluctantly drafted from every segment of American society. Though I am white and a mother, I am one with a black infant struggling with tubes in a Philadelphia hospital. Though I am female and contracted this disease in marriage and enjoy the warm support of my family, I am one with the lonely gay man sheltering a flickering candle from the cold wind of this family’s rejection. This is not a distant threat. It is a present danger. The rate of infection is increasing fasted among women and children. Largely unknown a decade ago, AIDS is the third leading killer of young adult Americans today. But it won’t be for long. Because unlike other diseases, this one travels. Adolescents don’t give each other cancer or heart disease because they believe they are i