Less than three months ago at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV and AIDS. I have come tonight to bring our silence to an end. I bear a message of challenge, not self-congratulation. I want your attention, not your applause. 不到三个月前，在盐湖城的平台听证会上，我要求共和党打破笼罩在艾滋病病毒和艾滋病问题上的沉默面纱。今晚，我来到这里，就是为了结束这种沉默。我带来的是挑战的信息，不是自我祝贺。我需要你们的关注，而不是掌声。
I would never have asked to be HIV positive, but I believe that in all things there is a purpose; and I stand before you and before the nation gladly. The reality of AIDS is brutally clear. Two hundred thousand Americans are dead or dying. A million more are infected. 我从未想过自己会成为HIV阳性，但我相信凡事皆有缘由；我高兴地站在你们面前，站在全国人民面前。艾滋病的现实残酷而清晰。二十万美国人已经死亡或濒临死亡。还有一百多万人被感染。
Worldwide, forty million, sixty million, or a hundred million infections will be counted in the coming few years. But despite science and research, White House meetings, and congressional hearings, despite good intentions and bold initiatives, campaign slogans, and hopeful promises, it is -- despite it all -- the epidemic which is winning tonight. 在世界范围内，未来几年将有四千万、六千万或一亿人被感染。但是，尽管有科学研究、白宫会议和国会听证会，尽管有良好的意愿和大胆的举措，尽管有竞选口号和充满希望的承诺，但——尽管这一切——今晚这场流行病仍在获胜。
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. 在选举年的背景下，我请你们，无论是在这个大厅里，还是在安静的家中聆听，认识到艾滋病病毒不是政治生物。它不在乎你是民主党人还是共和党人；它不问你是黑人还是白人，男性还是女性，同性恋还是异性恋，年轻人还是老年人。
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 his family's rejection. 今晚，我代表一个艾滋病社区，其成员不情愿地来自美国社会的每一个阶层。虽然我是白人，是一位母亲，但我与费城医院里挣扎在导管中的黑人婴儿感同身受。虽然我是女性，在婚姻中感染了这种疾病，并且享受着家人的温暖支持，但我与那个在家人排斥的寒风中守护着微弱烛光的孤独同性恋男子感同身受。
This is not a distant threat. It is a present danger. The rate of infection is increasing fastest 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 third for long, because unlike other diseases, this one travels. Adolescents don't give each other cancer or heart disease because they believe they are in love, but HIV is different; and we have helped it along. We have killed each other with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our silence. 这不是遥远的威胁。这是当下的危险。感染率在女性和儿童中增长最快。十年前还鲜为人知的艾滋病，如今已成为美国年轻成年人的第三大致命杀手。但它不会长久位居第三，因为与其他疾病不同，它会传播。青少年不会因为相信自己恋爱了就互相传染癌症或心脏病，但艾滋病病毒不同；而我们一直在助长它的传播。我们用无知、偏见和沉默互相残杀。
We may take refuge in our stereotypes, but we cannot hide there long, because HIV asks only one thing of those it attacks: Are you human? And this is the right question. Are you human? Because people with HIV have not entered some alien state of being. They are human. They have not earned cruelty, and they do not deserve meanness. They don't benefit from being isolated or treated as outcasts. Each of them is exactly what God made: a person; not evil, deserving of our judgment; not victims, longing for our pity -- people, ready for support and worthy of compassion. 我们可能躲在刻板印象中，但我们无法长久躲藏，因为艾滋病病毒对它攻击的人只问一个问题：你是人吗？而这正是正确的问题。你是人吗？因为感染艾滋病病毒的人并没有进入某种异类状态。他们是人。他们没有招致残酷对待，也不应受到刻薄对待。他们不会从被孤立或被当作弃儿对待中受益。他们每个人都是上帝所造的样子：一个人；不是邪恶的、值得我们评判的人；不是渴望我们同情的受害者——而是人，准备好接受支持，值得同情。
My call to you, my Party, is to take a public stand, no less compassionate than that of the President and Mrs. Bush. They have embraced me and my family in memorable ways. In the place of judgment, they have shown affection. In difficult moments, they have raised our spirits. In the darkest hours, I have seen them reaching not only to me, but also to my parents, armed with that stunning grief and special grace that comes only to parents who have themselves leaned too long over the bedside of a dying child. 我呼吁你们，我的政党，采取公开立场，其同情心不亚于总统和布什夫人。他们以令人难忘的方式拥抱了我和我的家人。在本该评判的地方，他们表现出了关爱。在困难时刻，他们鼓舞了我们的精神。在最黑暗的时刻，我看到他们不仅向我伸出援手，也向我的父母伸出援手，带着那种惊人的悲伤和特殊的恩典，这种恩典只属于那些在垂死孩子的床边俯身太久的父母。
With the President's leadership, much good has been done. Much of the good has gone unheralded, and as the President has insisted, much remains to be done. 在总统的领导下，已经做了很多好事。很多好事没有被宣扬，正如总统所坚持的，还有很多事情有待完成。
But we do the President's cause no good if we praise the American family but ignore a virus that destroys it. 但是，如果我们赞美美国家庭却忽视摧毁它的病毒，那对总统的事业毫无益处。
We must be consistent if we are to be believed. We cannot love justice and ignore prejudice, love our children and fear to teach them. Whatever our role as parent or policymaker, we must act as eloquently as we speak -- else we have no integrity. 如果我们要被相信，我们必须保持一致。我们不能热爱正义却忽视偏见，热爱我们的孩子却害怕教导他们。无论我们是父母还是决策者，我们的行动必须与我们的言辞一样有力——否则我们就没有诚信。
My call to the nation is a plea for awareness. If you believe you are safe, you are in danger. 我对全国的呼吁是提高认识。如果你认为自己是安全的，你就处于危险之中。
Because I was not hemophiliac, I was not at risk. Because I was not gay, I was not at risk. Because I did not inject drugs, I was not at risk. 因为我不是血友病患者，我没有风险。因为我不是同性恋，我没有风险。因为我不注射毒品，我没有风险。
My father has devoted much of his lifetime guarding against another holocaust. He is part of the generation who heard Pastor Niemoeller come out of the Nazi death camps to say, 我父亲一生的大部分时间都致力于防范另一场大屠杀。他属于那一代人，他们听到尼莫勒牧师从纳粹死亡集中营出来说：
They came after the Jews, and I was not a Jew, so, I did not protest. They came after the trade unionists, and I was not a trade unionist, so, I did not protest. Then they came after the Roman Catholics, and I was not a Roman Catholic, so, I did not protest. Then they came after me, and there was no one left to protest. 他们来抓犹太人，我不是犹太人，所以我没有抗议。他们来抓工会成员，我不是工会成员，所以我没有抗议。然后他们来抓罗马天主教徒，我不是罗马天主教徒，所以我没有抗议。然后他们来抓我，已经没有人可以抗议了。
The lesson history teaches is this: If you believe you are safe, you are at risk. If you do not see this killer stalking your children, look again. There is no family or community, no race or religion, no place left in America that is safe. Until we genuinely embrace this message, we are a nation at risk. 历史给我们的教训是：如果你认为自己是安全的，你就处于危险之中。如果你没有看到这个杀手在跟踪你的孩子，再看一眼。在美国，没有哪个家庭或社区，没有哪个种族或宗教，没有哪个地方是安全的。直到我们真正接受这个信息，我们就是一个处于危险中的国家。
Tonight, HIV marches resolutely toward AIDS in more than a million American homes, littering its pathway with the bodies of the young -- young men, young women, young parents, and young children. One of the families is mine. If it is true that HIV inevitably turns to AIDS, then my children will inevitably turn to orphans. 今晚，艾滋病病毒在超过一百万美国家庭中坚定地向艾滋病迈进，在其道路上留下年轻人的尸体——年轻男子、年轻女子、年轻父母和年幼的孩子。其中一个家庭就是我的。如果艾滋病病毒不可避免地会发展成艾滋病，那么我的孩子将不可避免地成为孤儿。
My family has been a rock of support. 我的家人一直是我坚强的支持。
My 84-year-old father, who has pursued the healing of the nations, will not accept the premise that he cannot heal his daughter. My mother refuses to be broken. She still calls at midnight to tell wonderful jokes that make me laugh. Sisters and friends, and my brother Phillip, whose birthday is today, all have helped carry me over the hardest places. I am blessed, richly and deeply blessed, to have such a family. 我84岁的父亲，一生致力于治愈各国，他不接受自己无法治愈女儿的前提。我的母亲拒绝被击垮。她仍然在午夜打电话讲精彩的笑话让我发笑。姐妹、朋友，还有今天过生日的弟弟菲利普，都帮助我度过了最艰难的时刻。我很幸运，非常幸运，拥有这样一个家庭。
But not all of you have been so blessed. You are HIV positive, but dare not say it. You have lost loved ones, but you dare not whisper the word AIDS. You weep silently. You grieve alone. I have a message for you. It is not you who should feel shame. It is we -- we who tolerate ignorance and practice prejudice, we who have taught you to fear. We must lift our shroud of silence, making it safe for you to reach out for compassion. It is our task to seek safety for our children, not in quiet denial, but in effective action. 但并不是所有人都如此幸运。你是HIV阳性，但不敢说出来。你失去了亲人，但不敢低声说出艾滋病这个词。你默默地哭泣。你独自悲伤。我有一个信息要告诉你们。感到羞耻的不应该是你们。应该是我们——我们容忍无知，实行偏见，我们教会了你们恐惧。我们必须揭开沉默的面纱，让你们能够安全地寻求同情。我们的任务是为我们的孩子寻求安全，不是在沉默的否认中，而是在有效的行动中。
Someday our children will be grown. My son Max, now four, will take the measure of his mother. My son Zachary, now two, will sort through his memories. I may not be here to hear their judgments, but I know already what I hope they are. I want my children to know that their mother was not a victim. She was a messenger. 有一天我们的孩子会长大。我的儿子马克斯现在四岁，他会评价他的母亲。我的儿子扎卡里现在两岁，他会整理他的记忆。我可能无法在这里听到他们的评价，但我已经知道我希望他们怎么评价我。我希望我的孩子们知道，他们的母亲不是受害者。她是一个使者。
I do not want them to think, as I once did, that courage is the absence of fear. I want them to know that courage is the strength to act wisely when most we are afraid. I want them to have the courage to step forward when called by their nation or their Party and give leadership, no matter what the personal cost. 我不希望他们像我曾经想的那样，认为勇气是没有恐惧。我希望他们知道，勇气是在最害怕的时候明智行动的力量。我希望他们有勇气在国家或政党召唤时挺身而出，发挥领导作用，无论个人代价如何。
I ask no more of you than I ask of myself or of my children. To the millions of you who are grieving, who are frightened, who have suffered the ravages of AIDS firsthand: Have courage, and you will find support. To the millions who are strong, I issue the plea: Set aside prejudice and politics to make room for compassion and sound policy. 我对你们的要求不比对我自己或我的孩子的要求更多。对于数百万正在悲伤、正在恐惧、亲身经历过艾滋病蹂躏的人：要有勇气，你们会找到支持。对于数百万坚强的人，我发出呼吁：抛开偏见和政治，为同情和合理的政策腾出空间。
To my children, I make this pledge: I will not give in, Zachary, because I draw my courage from you. Your silly giggle gives me hope; your gentle prayers give me strength; and you, my child, give me the reason to say to America, "You are at risk." And I will not rest, Max, until I have done all I can to make your world safe. I will seek a place where intimacy is not the prelude to suffering. I will not hurry to leave you, my children, but when I go, I pray that you will not suffer shame on my account. 我向我的孩子们承诺：我不会屈服，扎卡里，因为我从你身上汲取勇气。你傻傻的笑声给我希望；你温柔的祈祷给我力量；而你，我的孩子，给了我对美国说"你正处于危险之中"的理由。我不会休息，马克斯，直到我尽我所能让你的世界安全。我将寻找一个亲密不再是痛苦前奏的地方。我不会急于离开你们，我的孩子们，但当我离开时，我祈祷你们不会因为我而感到羞耻。
To all within the sound of my voice, I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word "AIDS" when I am gone. 我呼吁所有听到我声音的人：和我一起学习历史和恩典的教训，这样我的孩子们在我离开后就不会害怕说出"艾滋病"这个词。
Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all. 那样，他们的孩子和你们的孩子可能根本不需要低声说出这个词。
God bless the children, and God bless us all. 愿上帝保佑孩子们，愿上帝保佑我们所有人。
Good night. 晚安。