Hello CBC! 你们好，国会黑人核心小组的各位！
I guess I get the -- the fancier lectern here. Everybody please have a seat. Have a seat. I know it’s late. You’re ready for the after parties. I should have ditched the speech and brought my playlist. Everybody looks beautiful, handsome, wonderful. Thank you, Don, for that introduction. Thank you to the CBC Foundation. And thank you to the members of the CBC. 看来我今天用上了——用上了更气派的讲台。大家请坐，请坐。我知道时间不早了，你们都在等着会后的派对。我早该把演讲稿扔一边，直接带上我的歌单来。各位看起来都那么美丽、那么英俊、那么神采奕奕。感谢唐，感谢你的介绍。感谢国会黑人核心小组基金会。也感谢国会黑人核心小组的每一位成员。
On the challenges of our times, from giving workers a raise to getting families health coverage; on the threats of our time, from climate change to nuclear proliferation -- members of the CBC have been leaders moving America forward. 在我们这个时代的挑战面前，从为工人加薪到为家庭提供医保；在我们这个时代的威胁面前，从气候变化到核扩散——国会黑人核心小组的成员们始终是推动美国前进的领军力量。
With your help, our businesses have created over 13 million new jobs. With your help, we’ve covered more than 16 million Americans with health insurance -- many for the first time. Three years ago, Republicans said they’d get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent by 2017. It’s down to 5.1 right now. You didn’t hear much about that at the debate on Monday -- on Wednesday night. 在你们的帮助下，我们的企业创造了超过一千三百万个新的就业岗位。在你们的帮助下，超过一千六百万美国人获得了医疗保险——其中许多人是平生第一次。三年前，共和党人说他们要到2017年才能把失业率降到百分之六。而现在，失业率已经降到了百分之五点一。周一的——哦不对，周三晚上的辩论会上，你们可没怎么听到他们谈论这件事。
The point is, though, none of this progress would have been possible without the CBC taking tough votes when it mattered most. Whatever I’ve accomplished, the CBC has been there. I was proud to be a CBC member when I was in the Senate, and I’m proud to be your partner today. 然而关键在于，如果没有国会黑人核心小组在最关键时刻投下那些艰难的一票，所有这些进步都不可能实现。无论我取得了什么成就，国会黑人核心小组始终与我同在。我在参议院任职时，曾以身为国会黑人核心小组的一员为荣；今天，我以成为你们的伙伴为荣。
But we’re not here just to celebrate -- we’re here to keep going. Because with the unemployment rate for African Americans still more than double than whites, with millions of families still working hard and still waiting to feel the recovery in their own lives, we know that the promise of this nation -- where every single American, regardless of the circumstances in which they were born, regardless of what they look like, where they come from, has the chance to succeed -- that promise is not yet fulfilled. 但我们今晚齐聚于此，不仅仅是为了庆祝——我们是为了继续前行。因为非洲裔美国人的失业率仍然是白人的两倍多，数百万家庭仍在辛勤劳作，却仍在等待经济复苏真正降临到自己的生活中。我们深知，这个国家的承诺——每一个美国人，无论出身如何，无论相貌如何，无论来自何方，都有机会取得成功——这一承诺尚未实现。
The good thing about America -- the great project of America is that perfecting our union is never finished. We’ve always got more work to do. And tonight’s honorees remind us of that. They remind us of the courage and sacrifices, the work that they’ve done -- and not just at the national level, but in local communities all across the country. We couldn’t be prouder of them. The heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whom we lost last month remind us of the work that remains to be done. American heroes like Louis Stokes, and Julian Bond, and Amelia Boynton Robinson. 美国的美好之处——美国这项伟大事业的精髓，就在于完善我们的联邦永无止境。我们总有更多的工作要做。今晚的获奖者们提醒了我们这一点。他们让我们想起那些勇气与牺牲，想起他们付出的辛劳——不仅是在国家层面，更是在全国各地的地方社区中。我们为他们感到无比骄傲。上个月我们失去的民权运动英雄们也提醒着我们，前方仍有未竟的事业。像路易斯·斯托克斯、朱利安·邦德、阿米莉亚·博因顿·罗宾逊这样的美国英雄。
Ms. Robinson -- as some of you know, earlier this year, my family and I joined many in Selma for the 50th anniversary of that march. And as we crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I held Ms. Amelia’s hand. And I thought about her and all the extraordinary women like her who were really the life force of the movement. Women were the foot soldiers. Women strategized boycotts. Women organized marches. 罗宾逊女士——正如你们中有些人所知，今年早些时候，我和家人与许多人一起前往塞尔玛，纪念那次游行五十周年。当我们走过埃德蒙·佩特斯大桥时，我搀扶着阿米莉亚女士的手。我想到了她，想到了所有像她一样非凡的女性——她们才是这场运动真正的生命力。女性是冲锋陷阵的士兵。是女性策划了抵制运动。是女性组织了游行。
Even if they weren’t allowed to run the civil rights organizations on paper, behind the scenes they were the thinkers and the doers making things happen each and every day -- doing the work that nobody else wanted to do. They couldn’t prophesize from the pulpits, but they led the charge from the pews. They were no strangers to violence. They were on the front lines. 即便在纸面上她们不被允许领导民权组织，但在幕后，她们是思想者，也是行动者，日复一日地推动着一切向前——做着别人不愿做的工作。她们不能在布道坛上宣讲预言，却在教堂长椅上引领冲锋。她们对暴力并不陌生，她们站在最前线。
So often they were subject to abuse, dehumanized, but kept on going, holding families together. Mothers were beaten and gassed on Bloody Sunday. Four little girls were murdered in a Birmingham church. Women made the movement happen. 她们常常遭受虐待、被非人化，却依然坚持前行，维系着家庭的完整。在血腥星期日，母亲们遭到殴打和催泪瓦斯的袭击。四名小女孩在伯明翰的一座教堂里被谋杀。是女性成就了这场运动。
Of course, black women have been a part of every great movement in American history -- even if they weren’t always given a voice. They helped plan the March on Washington, but were almost entirely absent from the program. And when pressed, male organizers added a tribute highlighting six women -- none of them who were asked to make a speech. 当然，黑人女性参与了美国历史上每一场伟大的运动——尽管她们并不总能获得话语权。她们协助策划了向华盛顿进军，却几乎完全被排除在活动议程之外。在压力之下，男性组织者才增加了一个致敬环节，表彰六位女性——但没有一位被邀请发表演讲。
Daisy Bates introduced her fellow honorees in just 142 words, written by a man. Of course, Marian Anderson and Mahalia Jackson sang. But in a three-hour program, the men gave women just 142 words. That may sound familiar to some of the women in the room here tonight. 黛西·贝茨只用一百四十二个字介绍了她的同届获奖者，而那番话还是由一个男人写的。当然，玛丽安·安德森和玛哈莉亚·杰克逊献唱了。但在长达三个小时的活动中，男人们只给了女人一百四十二个字。今晚在座的有些女性，这听起来也许并不陌生。
The organizers even insisted on two separate parades -- male leaders marching along the main route on Pennsylvania Avenue, and leaders like Dorothy Height and Rosa Parks relegated to Independence Avenue. America’s most important march against segregation had its own version of separation. 组织者甚至坚持要分两路游行——男性领袖沿着宾夕法尼亚大道的主路线行进，而多萝西·海特和罗莎·帕克斯这样的领袖则被安排到独立大道。美国反对种族隔离最重要的游行，自身却上演着一出隔离的戏码。
Black women were central in the fight for women’s rights, from suffrage to the feminist movement -- and yet despite their leadership, too often they were also marginalized. But they didn’t give up, they didn’t let up. They were too fierce for that. Black women have always understood the words of Pauli Murray -- that “Hope is a song in a weary throat.” 在争取妇女权利的斗争中，从选举权运动到女权运动，黑人女性都居于核心地位——然而，尽管她们发挥了领导作用，却往往也被边缘化。但她们没有放弃，没有松懈。她们太过坚毅，绝不会轻言放弃。黑人女性始终深谙保利·默里的那句话——"希望是疲惫喉间的一首歌。"
It’s thanks to black women that we’ve come a long way since the days when a girl like Ruby Bridges couldn’t go to school. When a woman like Amelia couldn’t cast her vote. When we didn’t have a Congressional Black Caucus -- and its 20 women members. 正是因为有了黑人女性，我们才走过了漫漫长路，告别了露比·布里奇斯那样的女孩不能上学的年代，告别了阿米莉亚那样的女性不能投票的年代，告别了我们还没有国会黑人核心小组——以及它的二十位女性成员的年代。
So I’m focusing on women tonight because I want them to know how much we appreciate them, how much we admire them, how much we love them. And I want to talk about what more we have to do to provide full opportunity and equality for our black women and girls in America today. 所以今晚，我要聚焦女性的话题，因为我想让她们知道，我们有多么感激她们，多么敬佩她们，多么热爱她们。我还想谈谈，为了给今天美国的黑人女性和女孩提供充分的机会与平等，我们还需要做些什么。
Because all of us are beneficiaries of a long line of strong black women who helped carry this country forward. Their work to expand civil rights opened the doors of opportunity, not just for African Americans but for all women, for all of us -- black and white, Latino and Asian, LGBT and straight, for our First Americans and our newest Americans. And their contributions in every field -- as scientists and entrepreneurs, educators, explorers -- all made us stronger. Of course, they’re also a majority of my household. So I care deeply about how they’re doing. 因为我们所有人，都是一代代坚强的黑人女性的受益者——是她们推动着这个国家不断向前。她们拓展民权的努力，不仅为非裔美国人打开了机会之门，也为所有女性、为我们所有人——黑人和白人、拉丁裔和亚裔、同性恋者和异性恋者、为我们的原住民和最新到来的移民——打开了机会之门。她们在各个领域的贡献——作为科学家、企业家、教育家、探索者——都让我们变得更加强大。当然，她们也是我家庭中的大多数。所以我深切地关心她们过得好不好。
The good news is, despite structural barriers of race and gender, women and girls of color have made real progress in recent years. The number of black women-owned businesses has skyrocketed. Black women have ascended the ranks of every industry. Teen pregnancy rates among girls of color are down, while high school and four-year college graduation rates are up. That’s good news. 好消息是，尽管存在种族和性别的结构性障碍，有色人种女性和女孩近年来确实取得了实实在在的进步。黑人女性创办的企业数量大幅增长。黑人女性在各行各业中晋升至高层。有色人种女孩的青少年怀孕率下降了，而高中毕业率和四年制大学毕业率则上升了。这是好消息。
But there’s no denying that black women and girls still face real and persistent challenges. The unemployment rate is over 8 percent for black women. And they’re overrepresented in low-paying jobs; underrepresented in management. They often lack access to economic necessities like paid leave and quality, affordable child care. They often don’t get the same quality health care that they need, and have higher rates of certain chronic diseases -- although that’s starting to change with Obamacare. It’s working, by the way, people. Just in case -- just in case you needed to know. 但不可否认的是，黑人女性和女孩仍然面临着真实而持久的挑战。黑人女性的失业率超过百分之八。她们在低薪工作中比例过高，在管理层中比例不足。她们往往无法获得带薪休假和优质可负担的儿童保育等经济保障。她们往往得不到所需的同等质量的医疗保健，某些慢性病的发病率也更高——不过，随着奥巴马医改的推行，这种情况正在开始改变。顺便说一句，各位，医改确实在发挥作用。以防万一——以防你们需要知道这一点。
And then there are some of the challenges that are harder to see and harder to talk about -- although Michelle, our outstanding, beautiful First Lady talks about these struggles. Michelle will tell stories about when she was younger, people telling her she shouldn’t aspire to go to the very best universities. And she found herself thinking sometimes, “Well, maybe they’re right.” 还有一些挑战更难被看见，也更难启齿——不过，我们杰出而美丽的第一夫人米歇尔一直在谈论这些困境。米歇尔会讲述她年轻时的故事——有人告诉她，你不该奢望去最好的大学。她有时甚至会想："也许他们是对的。"
Even after she earned two degrees from some of the best universities in America, she still faced the doubts that were rooted in deep social prejudice and stereotypes, worrying whether she was being too assertive, or too angry, or too tall. I like tall women. 即使在美国一些顶尖大学获得了两个学位之后，她依然要面对那些植根于深层社会偏见和刻板印象的质疑，担心自己是不是太强势、太愤怒、或者个子太高了。我就喜欢高个子的女人。
And those stereotypes and social pressures, they still affect our girls. So we all have to be louder than the voices that are telling our girls they’re not good enough -- that they’ve got to look a certain way, or they’ve got to act a certain way, or set their goals at a certain level. We’ve got to affirm their sense of self-worth, and make them feel visible and beautiful, and understood and loved. 而这些刻板印象和社会压力，至今仍在影响着我们的女孩们。所以我们必须发出更响亮的声音，压过那些告诉我们的女孩"你们不够好"的声音——那些声音说她们得长成某种样子，或者得按某种方式行事，或者只能把目标定在某个水平。我们必须肯定她们的自我价值感，让她们感到自己被看见、被珍视、被理解、被爱。
And I say this as a father who strives to do this at home, but I also say this as a citizen. This is not just about my family or yours; it’s about who we are as a people, who we want to be, and how we can make sure that America is fulfilling its promise -- because everybody is getting a chance, and everybody is told they’re important, and everybody is given opportunity. 我作为一位在家中努力践行这一点的父亲说这番话，也作为一位公民说这番话。这不只是关乎我的家庭或你的家庭；这关乎我们作为一个民族是谁，我们想成为什么样的人，以及我们如何确保美国正在履行它的承诺——因为每个人都应有机会，每个人都应被告知自己很重要，每个人都应被赋予机遇。
And we got to do more than just say we care, or say we put a woman on ten-dollar bill, although that’s a good idea. We’ve got to make sure they’re getting some ten-dollar bills; that they’re getting paid properly. We’ve got to let our actions do the talking. 而我们不能只停留在口头上说我们在乎，或者说我们把一位女性的头像印在了十美元钞票上——尽管这是个好主意。我们必须确保她们真正拿到那些十美元钞票；确保她们获得应有的报酬。我们必须用行动来说话。
It is an affront to the very idea of America when certain segments of our population don’t have access to the same opportunities as everybody else. It makes a mockery of our economy when black women make 30 fewer cents for every dollar a white man earns. That adds up to thousands of dollars in missed income that determines whether a family can pay for a home, or pay for college for their kids, or save for retirement, or give their kids a better life. And that’s not just a woman’s issue, that’s everybody’s issue. 当我们人口中的某些群体无法获得与其他人同等的机会时，这是对美国理念本身的冒犯。当黑人女性每挣一美元就比白人男性少赚三十美分时，这是对我们经济的嘲弄。累积起来，那就是数千美元的收入损失——而这笔钱决定了一个家庭能否供得起房子，能否支付孩子的大学学费，能否为退休储蓄，能否给孩子更好的生活。这不只是女性的问题，这是每个人的问题。
I want Michelle getting paid at some point. We’ve got an outstanding former Secretary of State here who is also former First Lady, and I know she can relate to Michelle when she says, how come you get paid and I don’t? How did that work? 我希望米歇尔有一天也能拿到薪水。在座有一位杰出的前国务卿，她也是前第一夫人，我知道她一定能理解米歇尔的感受——为什么你有薪水而我没有？这是怎么回事？
When women of color aren’t given the opportunity to live up to their God-given potential, we all lose out on their talents; we’re not as good a country as we can be. We might miss out on the next Mae Jemison or Ursula Burns or Serena Williams or Michelle Obama. We want everybody to be on the field. We can’t afford to leave some folks off the field. 当有色人种女性没有机会充分发挥她们天赋的潜能时，我们所有人都在失去她们的才华；我们的国家就无法达到它应有的高度。我们可能会错过下一个梅·杰米森、下一个乌苏拉·伯恩斯、下一个塞雷娜·威廉姆斯，或是下一个米歇尔·奥巴马。我们希望每个人都能上场。我们承受不起把一些人排除在赛场之外的代价。
So we’re going to have to close those economic gaps so that hardworking women of all races, and black women in particular can support families, and strengthen communities, and contribute to our country’s success. 因此，我们必须消除这些经济差距，让所有种族的辛勤工作的女性，尤其是黑人女性，能够养家糊口，壮大社区，为国家的成功贡献力量。
So that’s why my administration is investing in job training and apprenticeships, to help everybody, but particularly help more women earn better-paying jobs, and particularly in non-traditional careers. It’s why we’re investing in getting more girls, and particularly girls of color interested in STEM fields -- math and science and engineering -- and help more of them stay on track in school. 正因为如此，我的政府正在投资职业培训和学徒计划，以帮助所有人，特别是帮助更多女性获得薪酬更高的工作，尤其是在非传统职业领域。正因为如此，我们正在投资培养更多女孩，特别是有色人种女孩对STEM领域——数学、科学和工程——的兴趣，并帮助她们中更多人在学业上保持稳步前进。
It’s why we’re going to continue to fight to eliminate the pay gap. Equal pay for equal work. It’s an all-American idea. It’s very simple. And that’s why we’re going to keep working to raise the minimum wage -- because women disproportionately are the ones who are not getting paid what they’re worth. 正因为如此，我们将继续为消除薪酬差距而奋斗。同工同酬。这是一个纯粹的美国理念。道理非常简单。正因为如此，我们将继续努力提高最低工资——因为女性不成比例地成为了那些得不到应有报酬的人。
That’s why we’re fighting to expand tax credits that help working parents make ends meet, closing tax loopholes for folks who don’t need tax loopholes to pay for. It’s why we’re expanding paid leave to employees of federal contractors. And that’s why Congress needs to expand paid leave for more hardworking Americans. It’s good for our economy. It’s the right thing to do. No family should have to choose between taking care of a sick child or losing their job. 正因为如此，我们正在为扩大税收抵免而奋斗，帮助工薪家庭维持生计，堵住那些根本不需要税收漏洞的人的漏洞。正因为如此，我们正在为联邦承包商的员工扩大带薪休假。也正因为如此，国会需要为更多辛勤工作的美国人扩大带薪休假。这对我们的经济有利。这是正确的做法。没有哪个家庭应该不得不在照顾生病的孩子和丢掉工作之间做出选择。
And just as an aside, what’s not the right thing to do, what makes no sense at all, is Congress threatening to shut down the entire federal government if they can’t shut down women’s access to Planned Parenthood. That’s not a good idea. Congress should be working on investing things that grow our economy and expand opportunity, and not get distracted and inflict the kind of self-inflicted wounds that we’ve seen before on our economy. So that’s some of the things we need to do to help improve the economic standing of all women; to help all families feel more secure in a changing economy. 顺便说一句，不正确的做法、完全毫无道理的做法是，国会威胁要关闭整个联邦政府，就因为他们不能剥夺女性获得计划生育组织服务的权利。这可不是什么好主意。国会应该致力于投资那些能够促进经济增长、扩大机会的事业，而不是分心走神，给我们的经济造成那些我们已经见过的、自找的伤害。以上就是我们需要做的一些事情，以帮助提高所有女性的经济地位，帮助所有家庭在不断变化的经济中获得更多安全感。
And before I go tonight, I also want to say something about a topic that’s been on my mind for a while, another profound barrier to opportunity in too many communities -- and that is our criminal justice system. 在我今晚离开之前，我还想谈谈一个我思考已久的话题——在太多社区中，另一个阻碍机会的深层屏障——那就是我们的刑事司法体系。
I spoke about this at length earlier this year at the NAACP, and I explained the long history of inequity in our criminal justice system. We all know the statistics. And this summer, because I wanted to highlight that there were human beings behind these statistics, I visited a prison in Oklahoma -- the first President to ever visit a federal prison. 今年早些时候，我在全国有色人种协进会的活动上详细谈到了这个问题，我解释了我们刑事司法体系中长期存在的不平等历史。我们都知道那些统计数据。今年夏天，因为我想强调这些数字背后是一个个活生生的人，我访问了俄克拉荷马州的一所监狱——我是有史以来第一位访问联邦监狱的总统。
And I sat down with the inmates, and I listened to their stories. And one of the things that struck me was the crushing burden their incarceration has placed not just on their prospects for the future, but also for their families, the women in their lives, children being raised without a father in the home; the crushing regret these men felt over the children that they left behind. 我与囚犯们坐下来交谈，聆听他们的故事。最让我震撼的事情之一，就是他们的监禁不仅压垮了他们自己的未来，也给他们的家庭、他们生命中的女性、那些在没有父亲的家庭中长大的孩子带来了沉重的负担；这些男人对自己抛下的孩子怀着刻骨铭心的悔恨。
Mass incarceration rips apart families. It hollows out neighborhoods. It perpetuates poverty. We understand that in many of our communities, they’re under-policed. The problem is not that we don’t want active, effective police work. We want, and admire, and appreciate law enforcement. We want them in our communities. Crime hurts the African American community more than anybody. 大规模监禁撕裂了家庭。掏空了社区。延续了贫困。我们明白，在我们的许多社区，警力是不足的。问题不在于我们不想要积极有效的警务工作。我们需要、敬佩并感激执法人员。我们希望他们出现在我们的社区里。犯罪对非裔美国人社区的伤害超过任何其他群体。
But we want to make sure that it’s done well and it’s done right, and it’s done fairly and it’s done smart. And that’s why, in the coming months, I’m going to be working with many in Congress and many in the CBC to try to make progress on reform legislation that addresses unjust sentencing laws, and encourages diversion and prevention programs, catches our young people early and tries to put them on a better path, and then helps ex-offenders, after they’ve done their time, get on the right track. It’s the right thing to do for America. 但我们要确保警务工作做得好、做得对、做得公平、做得明智。正因为如此，在未来几个月里，我将与国会中的许多人以及国会黑人核心小组的许多成员合作，努力推动改革立法取得进展——解决不公正的量刑法律，鼓励转处和预防项目，及早发现我们的年轻人并努力引导他们走上更好的道路，然后帮助刑满释放人员在服刑结束后重回正轨。这是为了美国，这是正确的做法。
And although in these discussions a lot of my focus has been on African American men and the work we’re doing with My Brother’s Keeper, we can’t forget the impact that the system has on women, as well. The incarceration rate for black women is twice as high as the rate for white women. Many women in prison, you come to discover, have been victims of homelessness and domestic violence, and in some cases human trafficking. They’ve got high rates of mental illness and substance abuse. And many have been sexually assaulted, both before they got to prison and then after they go to prison. 尽管在这些讨论中，我的很多注意力都集中在非裔美国男性以及我们通过"守护兄弟"倡议所做的工作上，但我们不能忘记这个体系对女性的影响。黑人女性的监禁率是白人女性的两倍。你会发现，狱中许多女性都曾是无家可归和家庭暴力的受害者，有些甚至是人口贩运的受害者。她们患有精神疾病和药物滥用的比例很高。许多人还曾遭受性侵犯——在入狱前如此，入狱后也是如此。
And we don’t often talk about how society treats black women and girls before they end up in prison. They’re suspended at higher rates than white boys and all other girls. And while boys face the school-to-prison pipeline, a lot of girls are facing a more sinister sexual abuse-to-prison pipeline. Victims of early sexual abuse are more likely to fail in school, which can lead to sexual exploitation, which can lead to prison. So we’re focusing on boys, but we’re also investing in ways to change the odds for at-risk girls -- to make sure that they are loved and valued, to give them a chance. 我们很少谈论，在黑人女性和女孩入狱之前，社会是如何对待她们的。她们被停课的比例高于白人男孩和所有其他女孩。男孩们面临的是从学校到监狱的流水线，而许多女孩面临的则是一条更加险恶的"从性虐待到监狱"的流水线。早年遭受性虐待的受害者更有可能在学业上失败，这可能导致性剥削，进而导致入狱。所以我们在关注男孩的同时，也在投资各种方式来改变高危女孩的命运——确保她们被爱、被珍视，给她们一个机会。
And that’s why we have to make a collective effort to address violence and abuse against women in all of our communities. In every community, on every campus, we’ve got to be very clear: Women who have been victims of rape or domestic abuse, who need help, should know that they can count on society and on law enforcement to treat them with love and care and sensitivity, and not skepticism. 正因为如此，我们必须共同努力，在我们所有的社区中解决针对女性的暴力和虐待问题。在每一个社区，在每一个校园，我们都必须非常明确地表示：那些遭受强奸或家庭暴力的女性，那些需要帮助的女性，应该知道她们可以指望社会和执法部门以爱、关怀和敏感对待她们，而不是怀疑。
I want to repeat -- because somehow this never shows up on Fox News. I want to repeat -- because I’ve said it a lot, unwaveringly, all the time: Our law enforcement officers do outstanding work in an incredibly difficult and dangerous job. They put their lives on the line for our safety. We appreciate them and we love them. 我想重申一遍——因为不知怎么的，福克斯新闻从不报道这些。我想重申一遍——因为我一直、始终、坚定不移地这样说：我们的执法人员在一份极其困难和危险的工作中做出了杰出的贡献。他们为了我们的安全将生命置之度外。我们感激他们，我们热爱他们。
That’s why my Task Force on 21st Century Policing made a set of recommendations that I want to see implemented to improve their safety, as well as to make sure that our criminal justice system is being applied fairly. Officers show uncommon bravery in our communities every single day. They deserve our respect. That includes women in law enforcement. We need more of you, by the way. We’ve got an outstanding chief law enforcement officer in our Attorney General, Loretta Lynch. We want all our young ladies to see what a great role model she is. 正因为如此，我的二十一世纪警务特别工作组提出了一系列建议，我希望看到这些建议得到落实，以提高他们的安全，同时确保我们的刑事司法体系得到公平的执行。警察们每天都在我们的社区中展现非凡的勇气。他们值得我们的尊重。这包括执法队伍中的女性。顺便说一句，我们需要更多像你们这样的人。我们有一位杰出的首席执法官——我们的司法部长洛雷塔·林奇。我们希望所有年轻女性都能看到她是多么优秀的榜样。
So I just want to repeat, because somehow this never gets on the TV: There is no contradiction between us caring about our law enforcement officers and also making sure that our laws are applied fairly. Do not make this as an either/or proposition. This is a both/and proposition. We want to protect our police officers. We’ll do a better job doing it if our communities can feel confident that they are being treated fairly. I hope I’m making that clear. I hope I’m making that clear. 所以我想再重申一遍，因为不知怎么的，电视上从不播放这些：我们关心执法人员，与我们确保法律得到公平执行之间，并不矛盾。不要把这当成一个非此即彼的命题。这是一个两者兼得的命题。我们要保护我们的警察。而当我们的社区能够确信自己受到公平对待时，我们就能更好地保护警察。我希望我讲清楚了。我希望我讲清楚了。
We need to make sure the laws are applied evenly. This is not a new problem. It’s just that in recent months, in recent years, suddenly folks have videos and body cameras, and social media, and so it’s opened our eyes to these incidents. And many of these incidents are subject to ongoing investigation, so I can’t comment on every specific one. 我们需要确保法律得到公正的执行。这不是一个新问题。只是在最近几个月、最近几年，人们突然有了视频、有了随身摄像头、有了社交媒体，于是这些事件进入了我们的视野。其中许多事件仍在调查之中，所以我不能对每一起具体事件发表评论。
But we can’t avoid these tough conversations altogether. That’s not going to help our police officers, the vast majority who do the right thing every day, by just pretending that these things aren’t happening. That’s not going to help build trust between them and the communities in which they serve. 但我们不能完全回避这些艰难的对话。对绝大多数每天都恪尽职守的警察来说，假装这些事情没有发生，对他们没有任何帮助。这也无助于在警察与他们所服务的社区之间建立信任。
So these are hard issues, but I’m confident we’re going to move forward together for a system that is fairer and more just. We’ve got good people on both sides of the aisle that are working with law enforcement and local communities to find a better way forward. And as always, change will not happen overnight. It won’t be easy. But if our history has taught us anything, it’s taught us that when we come together, when we’re working with a sense of purpose, when we are listening to one another, when we assume the best in each other rather than the worst, then change happens. 这些都是棘手的问题，但我有信心，我们将共同前进，建立一个更加公平、更加正义的体系。两党都有优秀的人士正在与执法部门和地方社区合作，寻找更好的前进道路。一如既往，改变不会在一夜之间发生。这不会容易。但如果说我们的历史教会了我们什么，那就是当我们团结在一起，当我们怀揣使命感而努力，当我们彼此倾听，当我们以善意而非恶意揣度对方时，改变就会发生。
Like every parent, I can’t help to see the world increasingly through my daughters’ eyes. And on that day, when we were celebrating that incredible march in Selma, I had Ms. Amelia’s hand in one of my hands, but Michelle had Sasha’s hand, and my mother-in-law had Malia’s hand -- and it was a chain across generations. And I thought about all those women who came before us, who risked everything for life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, so often without notice, so often without fanfare. 像每一位父母一样，我越来越忍不住透过女儿们的眼睛来看这个世界。那一天，当我们在塞尔玛纪念那场伟大的游行时，我一只手牵着阿米莉亚女士的手，米歇尔牵着萨沙的手，而我的岳母牵着玛丽亚的手——这是一条跨越代际的链条。我想到了所有那些走在我们前面的女性，她们为生命、自由和追求幸福赌上了一切，却常常默默无闻，常常无人喝彩。
Their names never made the history books. All those women who cleaned somebody else’s house, or looked after somebody else’s children, did somebody else’s laundry, and then got home and did it again, and then went to church and cooked -- and then they were marching. 她们的名字从未载入史册。所有那些为别人打扫房子、照顾别人的孩子、洗别人的衣服，然后回到家再做一遍，然后去教堂、做饭——然后还要去游行的女性们。
And because of them, Michelle could cross that bridge. And because of them, they brought them along, and Malia and Sasha can cross that bridge. And that tells me that if we follow their example, we’re going to cross more bridges in the future. If we keep moving forward, hand in hand, God willing, my daughters’ children will be able to cross that bridge in an America that’s more free, and more just, and more prosperous than the one that we inherited. Your children will, too. 正因为有了她们，米歇尔才能走过那座桥。正因为有了她们，她们带着后辈前行，玛丽亚和萨沙才能走过那座桥。这让我相信，如果我们以她们为榜样，未来我们将跨过更多的桥梁。如果我们继续携手前进，愿上帝保佑，我女儿的孩子们将能够在一个比我们所继承的更加自由、更加公正、更加繁荣的美国走过那座桥。你们的孩子也一样。
Thank you CBC. God bless you. God bless this country we love. 谢谢你们，国会黑人核心小组的各位。愿上帝保佑你们。愿上帝保佑我们热爱的这个国家。
Thank you. 谢谢大家。