Good morning, everyone. It is a great honor to be with you here today. Of course, it is a truly humbling moment to be introduced by Elie Wiesel. Along with Sara Bloomfield, the outstanding director here, we just spent some time among the exhibits, and this is now the second visit I've had here. My daughters have come here. It is a searing occasion whenever you visit. And as we walked, I was taken back to the visit that Elie mentioned, the time that we traveled together to Buchenwald. 大家早上好。今天能与各位相聚于此，我深感荣幸。当然，由埃利·维瑟尔介绍我出场，实在令人无比谦卑。刚才，我和埃利以及这里杰出的馆长萨拉·布卢姆菲尔德一道参观了部分展览；这已经是我第二次来到这里。我的女儿们也来过这里。每一次参观，都会给人带来刺痛心灵的感受。一路走来，我的思绪又回到埃利刚才提到的那次访问，也就是我们一同前往布痕瓦尔德的那一次。
And I recall how he showed me the barbed-wire fences and the guard towers. And we walked the rows where the barracks once stood, where so many left this Earth -- including Elie’s father, Shlomo. We stopped at an old photo -- men and boys lying in their wooden bunks, barely more than skeletons. And if you look closely, you can see a 16-year old boy, looking right at the camera, right into your eyes. You can see Elie. 我还记得，他如何指给我看铁丝网和岗楼。我们沿着一排排营房旧址走过，曾有那么多人在那里离开人世，其中就包括埃利的父亲什洛莫。我们在一张旧照片前停下：男人和男孩躺在木板铺位上，瘦得几乎只剩骨架。若仔细看，你会看到一个十六岁的男孩正直视镜头，直视你的双眼。那就是埃利。
And at the end of our visit that day, Elie spoke of his father. "I thought one day I will come back and speak to him," he said, "of times in which memory has become a sacred duty of all people of goodwill." Elie, you've devoted your life to upholding that sacred duty. You’ve challenged us all -- as individuals, and as nations -- to do the same, with the power of your example, the eloquence of your words, as you did again just now. And so to you and Marion, we are extraordinarily grateful. 那天参观结束时，埃利谈起了父亲。他说：“我曾想，有一天我会回来对他说，我们已进入这样一个时代：铭记往事已成为所有善良之人的神圣责任。”埃利，你用一生守护着这份神圣责任。你以自身的榜样和言辞的力量，激励我们每一个人，也激励各个国家承担同样的责任，就像你刚才再次做到的那样。因此，我们对你和马里恩怀有无比深切的感激。
To Sara, to Tom Bernstein, to Josh Bolten, members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and everyone who sustains this living memorial -- thank you for welcoming us here today. To the members of Congress, members of the diplomatic corps, including Ambassador Michael Oren of Israel, we are glad to be with you. 感谢萨拉、汤姆·伯恩斯坦、乔什·博尔顿、美国大屠杀纪念委员会的成员，以及每一位维系这座鲜活纪念馆的人，感谢你们今天欢迎我们来到这里。国会议员们、外交使团成员们，包括以色列驻美大使迈克尔·奥伦，很高兴能与你们相聚。
And most of all, we are honored to be in the presence of men and women whose lives are a testament to the endurance and the strength of the human spirit -- the inspiring survivors. It is a privilege to be with you, on a very personal level. As I’ve told some of you before, I grew up hearing stories about my great uncle -- a soldier in the 89th Infantry Division who was stunned and shaken by what he saw when he helped to liberate Ordruf, part of Buchenwald. And I’ll never forget what I saw at Buchenwald, where so many perished with the words of Sh’ma Yis’ra’eil on their lips. 最重要的是，能够与这些男男女女共处一堂，我们深感荣幸；他们的一生见证了人类精神的坚忍与力量，他们就是鼓舞人心的幸存者。从非常个人的角度说，能与你们相聚是我的荣幸。正如我以前对你们中的一些人讲过的，我从小就听着曾叔祖父的故事长大。他是第八十九步兵师的一名士兵，在协助解放布痕瓦尔德集中营的一部分奥尔德鲁夫时，眼前所见令他震惊而心灵受创。我也永远不会忘记自己在布痕瓦尔德看到的一切；无数人在那里死去，临终时口中念着《示玛篇》的祷词。
I’ve stood with survivors, in the old Warsaw ghettos, where a monument honors heroes who said we will not go quietly; we will stand up, we will fight back. And I’ve walked those sacred grounds at Yad Vashem, with its lesson for all nations -- the Shoah cannot be denied. 我曾与幸存者们一同站在华沙旧犹太区，那里有一座纪念碑，纪念那些曾宣告“我们不会悄然屈服；我们要挺身而出，我们要奋起反抗”的英雄。我也曾走过以色列犹太大屠杀纪念馆的神圣土地；它给予所有国家的教训是：绝不能否认犹太大屠杀。
During my visit to Yad Vashem I was given a gift, inscribed with those words from the Book of Joel: "Has the like of this happened in your days or in the days of your fathers? Tell your children about it, and let your children tell theirs, and their children the next generation." That’s why we’re here. Not simply to remember, but to speak. 访问以色列犹太大屠杀纪念馆时，我收到一份礼物，上面刻着《约珥书》中的话：“在你们的日子，或你们列祖的日子，曾有这样的事吗？你们要将这事传给子女，子女传给他们的子女，他们的子女再传给后代。”这正是我们今天来到这里的原因：不仅为了铭记，还为了发声。
I say this as a President, and I say it as a father. We must tell our children about a crime unique in human history. The one and only Holocaust -- six million innocent people -- men, women, children, babies -- sent to their deaths just for being different, just for being Jewish. We tell them, our children, about the millions of Poles and Catholics and Roma and gay people and so many others who also must never be forgotten. 我以总统的身份这样说，也以父亲的身份这样说。我们必须告诉孩子们，人类历史上曾发生过一种绝无仅有的罪行。那唯一的一场大屠杀，使六百万无辜的人，包括男人、女人、儿童和婴儿，仅仅因为与众不同、仅仅因为是犹太人，便被送去死亡。我们还要告诉孩子们，数以百万计的波兰人、天主教徒、罗姆人、同性恋者以及许许多多其他受害者，同样永远不能被遗忘。
Let us tell our children not only how they died, but also how they lived -- as fathers and mothers, and sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters who loved and hoped and dreamed, just like us. 我们不仅要告诉孩子们这些人如何死去，也要告诉他们这些人如何生活。他们是父亲和母亲，是儿子和女儿，是兄弟和姐妹；他们和我们一样，曾经爱过、希望过、梦想过。
We must tell our children about how this evil was allowed to happen -- because so many people succumbed to their darkest instincts, and because so many others stood silent. Let us also tell our children about the Righteous Among the Nations. Among them was Jan Karski, a young Polish Catholic, who witnessed Jews being put on cattle cars, who saw the killings, and who told the truth, all the way to President Roosevelt himself. 我们必须告诉孩子们，这种邪恶为何会获准发生：因为太多人屈从于内心最黑暗的本能，也因为太多人选择沉默。我们也要向孩子们讲述“国际义人”。其中一位是扬·卡尔斯基，一名年轻的波兰天主教徒。他亲眼看到犹太人被塞进运牲口的车厢，亲眼目睹杀戮，并一路把真相报告给罗斯福总统本人。
Jan Karski passed away more than a decade ago. But today, I’m proud to announce that this spring I will honor him with America’s highest civilian honor -- the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 扬·卡尔斯基已于十多年前去世。但今天，我自豪地宣布，今年春天，我将授予他美国最高的平民荣誉，也就是总统自由勋章。
We must tell our children. But more than that, we must teach them. Because remembrance without resolve is a hollow gesture. Awareness without action changes nothing. In this sense, "never again" is a challenge to us all -- to pause and to look within. 我们必须告诉孩子们。但更重要的是，我们必须教育他们。因为只有纪念而没有决心，只是一种空洞的姿态；只有认识而没有行动，什么也改变不了。从这个意义上说，“永不重演”是对我们所有人的挑战，它要求我们停下来，审视自己的内心。
For the Holocaust may have reached its barbaric climax at Treblinka and Auschwitz and Belzec, but it started in the hearts of ordinary men and women. And we have seen it again -- madness that can sweep through peoples, sweep through nations, embed itself. The killings in Cambodia, the killings in Rwanda, the killings in Bosnia, the killings in Darfur -- they shock our conscience, but they are the awful extreme of a spectrum of ignorance and intolerance that we see every day; the bigotry that says another person is less than my equal, less than human. 大屠杀的野蛮或许在特雷布林卡、奥斯维辛和贝乌热茨达到顶峰，但它始于普通男女的内心。后来我们又一次次看到这种情形：疯狂能够席卷一个民族、席卷一个国家，并在其中扎根。柬埔寨的杀戮、卢旺达的杀戮、波斯尼亚的杀戮、达尔富尔的杀戮震撼着我们的良知；但它们只是我们每天所见的无知与不宽容这一连续谱系最可怕的极端，是那种认为别人不与我平等、甚至不算人类的偏执。
These are the seeds of hate that we cannot let take root in our heart. 这些就是仇恨的种子，我们绝不能让它们在心中生根。
"Never again" is a challenge to reject hatred in all of its forms -- including anti-Semitism, which has no place in a civilized world. And today, just steps from where he gave his life protecting this place, we honor the memory of Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, whose family joins us today. “永不重演”要求我们拒绝一切形式的仇恨，其中包括在文明世界中绝无容身之地的反犹主义。今天，就在史蒂芬·泰隆·约翰斯警官为保护这里而献出生命的不远处，我们缅怀他；他的家人今天也来到现场。
"Never again" is a challenge to defend the fundamental right of free people and free nations to exist in peace and security -- and that includes the State of Israel. And on my visit to the old Warsaw Ghetto, a woman looked me in the eye, and she wanted to make sure America stood with Israel. She said, "It’s the only Jewish state we have." And I made her a promise in that solemn place. I said I will always be there for Israel. “永不重演”要求我们捍卫自由人民和自由国家在和平与安全中生存的基本权利，这也包括以色列国。访问华沙旧犹太区时，一位女士直视着我的眼睛，她想确认美国会与以色列站在一起。她说：“这是我们唯一的犹太国家。”在那个庄严的地方，我向她作出承诺。我说，我将永远支持以色列。
So when efforts are made to equate Zionism to racism, we reject them. When international fora single out Israel with unfair resolutions, we vote against them. When attempts are made to delegitimize the state of Israel, we oppose them. When faced with a regime that threatens global security and denies the Holocaust and threatens to destroy Israel, the United States will do everything in our power to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. 因此，当有人企图把犹太复国主义等同于种族主义时，我们予以拒绝；当国际论坛用不公正的决议专门针对以色列时，我们投反对票；当有人企图剥夺以色列国的合法性时，我们表示反对；当一个政权威胁全球安全、否认大屠杀并扬言摧毁以色列时，美国将竭尽全力阻止伊朗获得核武器。
"Never again" is a challenge to societies. We’re joined today by communities who’ve made it your mission to prevent mass atrocities in our time. This museum’s Committee of Conscience, NGOs, faith groups, college students, you’ve harnessed the tools of the digital age -- online maps and satellites and a video and social media campaign seen by millions. You understand that change comes from the bottom up, from the grassroots. You understand -- to quote the task force convened by this museum -- "preventing genocide is an achievable goal." It is an achievable goal. “永不重演”也是对社会的挑战。今天在座的许多团体，都把防止我们这个时代的大规模暴行视为自身使命。纪念馆的良知委员会、非政府组织、宗教团体和大学生们，你们运用了数字时代的工具，包括在线地图、卫星、视频，以及数百万人看过的社交媒体宣传活动。你们明白，变革自下而上，始于基层。你们明白“预防种族灭绝是一个可以实现的目标”，这是本馆召集的工作组所说的话。这的确是一个可以实现的目标。
It is one that does not start from the top; it starts from the bottom up. 它不是从上层开始，而是自下而上、从基层开始。
It’s remarkable -- as we walked through this exhibit, Elie and I were talking as we looked at the unhappy record of the State Department and so many officials here in the United States during those years. And he asked, "What would you do?" But what you all understand is you don't just count on officials, you don't just count on governments. You count on people -- and mobilizing their consciences. 这很值得深思。刚才参观展览时，我和埃利看到了当年美国国务院以及我国众多官员令人失望的记录，并谈论起这些往事。他问我：“你会怎么做？”但各位都明白，我们不能只指望官员，不能只指望政府；我们要依靠人民，唤起并动员他们的良知。
And finally, "never again" is a challenge to nations. It’s a bitter truth -- too often, the world has failed to prevent the killing of innocents on a massive scale. And we are haunted by the atrocities that we did not stop and the lives we did not save. 最后，“永不重演”也是对各个国家的挑战。一个令人痛苦的事实是，世界曾太多次未能阻止无辜者遭到大规模杀戮。那些我们未能制止的暴行、未能挽救的生命，至今仍萦绕着我们。
Three years ago today, I joined many of you for a ceremony of remembrance at the U.S. Capitol. And I said that we had to do "everything we can to prevent and end atrocities." And so I want to report back to some of you today to let you know that as President I’ve done my utmost to back up those words with deeds. Last year, in the first-ever presidential directive on this challenge, I made it clear that "preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States of America." 三年前的今天，我和你们许多人一道参加了在美国国会大厦举行的纪念仪式。当时我说，我们必须“尽一切所能预防并终止暴行”。所以今天，我想向你们中的一些人汇报：作为总统，我已竭尽全力，用行动兑现这些话。去年，我首次就这一挑战发布总统指令，明确指出：“预防大规模暴行和种族灭绝，是美利坚合众国的一项核心国家安全利益，也是一项核心道德责任。”
That does not mean that we intervene militarily every time there’s an injustice in the world. We cannot and should not. It does mean we possess many tools -- diplomatic and political, and economic and financial, and intelligence and law enforcement and our moral suasion -- and using these tools over the past three years, I believe -- I know -- that we have saved countless lives. 这并不意味着，每当世界上出现不公正，我们都要进行军事干预。我们做不到，也不应该这样做。它意味着我们拥有许多工具，包括外交、政治、经济、金融、情报、执法以及道义感召。在过去三年运用这些工具的过程中，我相信，而且我知道，我们挽救了无数生命。
When the referendum in South Sudan was in doubt, it threatened to reignite a conflict that had killed millions. But with determined diplomacy, including by some people in this room, South Sudan became the world’s newest nation. And our diplomacy continues, because in Darfur, in Abyei, in Southern Kordofan and the Blue Nile, the killing of innocents must come to an end. The Presidents of Sudan and South Sudan must have the courage to negotiate -- because the people of Sudan and South Sudan deserve peace. That is work that we have done, and it has saved lives. 南苏丹公投前景未定时，一场曾导致数百万人死亡的冲突面临重燃的危险。然而，凭借坚定的外交努力，包括在座一些人的参与，南苏丹成为世界上最新成立的国家。我们的外交工作仍在继续，因为在达尔富尔、阿卜耶伊、南科尔多凡和青尼罗河，无辜者遭到杀戮的局面必须结束。苏丹和南苏丹的总统必须拿出勇气进行谈判，因为两国人民理应得到和平。这是我们已经开展的工作，它挽救了生命。
When the incumbent in Côte D’Ivoire lost an election but refused to give it up -- give up power, it threatened to unleash untold ethnic and religious killings. But with regional and international diplomacy, and U.N. peacekeepers who stood their ground and protected civilians, the former leader is now in The Hague, and Côte D’Ivoire is governed by its rightful leader -- and lives were saved. 科特迪瓦的在任总统选举失败，却拒绝交出权力时，局势一度可能引发无法估量的族群和宗教杀戮。但在地区与国际外交努力下，在联合国维和人员坚守阵地、保护平民之后，这位前领导人如今身在海牙，科特迪瓦也由合法当选的领导人治理，许多生命因此获救。
When the Libyan people demanded their rights and Muammar Qaddafi’s forces bore down on Benghazi, a city of 700,000, and threatened to hunt down its people like rats, we forged with allies and partners a coalition that stopped his troops in their tracks. And today, the Libyan people are forging their own future, and the world can take pride in the innocent lives that we saved. 当利比亚人民要求自身权利，而穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲的军队逼近拥有七十万人口的班加西，并威胁要像猎杀老鼠一样追杀当地人民时，我们与盟友和伙伴组成联盟，阻止了他的部队。今天，利比亚人民正在开创自己的未来，世界可以为我们共同挽救的无辜生命感到自豪。
And when the Lord’s Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony continued its atrocities in Central Africa, I ordered a small number of American advisors to help Uganda and its neighbors pursue the LRA. And when I made that announcement, I directed my National Security Council to review our progress after 150 days. We have done so, and today I can announce that our advisors will continue their efforts to bring this madman to justice, and to save lives. 当约瑟夫·科尼领导的圣灵抵抗军继续在中部非洲实施暴行时，我下令派遣少量美国顾问，协助乌干达及其邻国追捕该组织。作出这项宣布时，我指示国家安全委员会在一百五十天后审查进展。我们已经完成审查，今天我可以宣布，我们的顾问将继续努力，把这个恶徒绳之以法，并挽救生命。
It is part of our regional strategy to end the scourge that is the LRA, and help realize a future where no African child is stolen from their family and no girl is raped and no boy is turned into a child soldier. 这是我们结束圣灵抵抗军祸患的地区战略的一部分，也是为了帮助实现这样一个未来：非洲的孩子不再被从家人身边掳走，女孩不再遭受强暴，男孩不再被变成娃娃兵。
We’ve stepped up our efforts in other ways. We’re doing more to protect women and girls from the horror of wartime sexual violence. With the arrest of fugitives like Ratko Mladic, charged with ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, the world sent a message to war criminals everywhere: We will not relent in bringing you to justice. Be on notice. And for the first time, we explicitly barred entry into the United States of those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. 我们还以其他方式加强了努力。我们正在采取更多行动，保护妇女和女孩免受战时性暴力的恐怖。拉特科·姆拉迪奇等逃犯因涉嫌在波斯尼亚实施种族清洗而被捕，世界由此向各地的战争罪犯发出信号：我们绝不会放弃将你们绳之以法，你们必须明白这一点。我们还首次明确禁止对战争罪和反人类罪负有责任者进入美国。
Now we’re doing something more. We’re making sure that the United States government has the structures, the mechanisms to better prevent and respond to mass atrocities. So I created the first-ever White House position dedicated to this task. It’s why I created a new Atrocities Prevention Board, to bring together senior officials from across our government to focus on this critical mission. This is not an afterthought. This is not a sideline in our foreign policy. The board will convene for the first time today, at the White House. 现在，我们正在采取更多行动。我们要确保美国政府拥有相应的架构和机制，以便更有效地预防和应对大规模暴行。因此，我设立了白宫首个专门负责这项任务的职位，也正因如此，我成立了新的暴行预防委员会，汇集政府各部门高级官员，专注于这一关键使命。这不是事后才想到的工作，也不是美国外交政策中的边缘事项。委员会今天将在白宫举行首次会议。
And I’m pleased that one of its first acts will be to meet with some of your organizations -- citizens and activists who are partners in this work, who have been carrying this torch. 我很高兴，委员会最初的行动之一，就是与在座一些组织会面。你们这些公民和活动人士是我们这项工作的伙伴，是一直传递这支火炬的人。
Going forward, we’ll strengthen our tools across the board, and we'll create new ones. The intelligence community will prepare, for example, the first-ever National Intelligence Estimate on the risk of mass atrocities and genocide. We're going to institutionalize the focus on this issue. Across government, "alert channels" will ensure that information about unfolding crises -- and dissenting opinions -- quickly reach decision-makers, including me. 展望未来，我们将全面加强现有工具，也将创造新的工具。例如，情报界将首次就大规模暴行和种族灭绝风险编制国家情报评估。我们要把对这一问题的关注制度化。在整个政府范围内，“预警渠道”将确保正在发展的危机信息以及不同意见迅速送达包括我在内的决策者。
Our Treasury Department will work to more quickly deploy its financial tools to block the flow of money to abusive regimes. Our military will take additional steps to incorporate the prevention of atrocities into its doctrine and its planning. And the State Department will increase its ability to surge our diplomats and experts in a crisis. USAID will invite people and high-tech companies to help create new technologies to quickly expose violations of human rights. And we’ll work with other nations so the burden is better shared -- because this is a global responsibility. 财政部将努力更快运用金融工具，阻断流向暴虐政权的资金。军方将采取更多措施，把预防暴行纳入军事理论和规划。国务院将增强在危机中快速增派外交官和专家的能力。美国国际开发署将邀请个人和高科技企业协助开发新技术，迅速揭露侵犯人权的行为。我们还将与其他国家合作，更公平地分担责任，因为这是一项全球责任。
In short, we need to be doing everything we can to prevent and respond to these kinds of atrocities -- because national sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people. 简而言之，我们必须竭尽所能预防和应对这类暴行，因为国家主权绝不是屠杀本国人民的许可证。
We recognize that, even as we do all we can, we cannot control every event. And when innocents suffer, it tears at our conscience. Elie alluded to what we feel as we see the Syrian people subjected to unspeakable violence, simply for demanding their universal rights. And we have to do everything we can. And as we do, we have to remember that despite all the tanks and all the snipers, all the torture and brutality unleashed against them, the Syrian people still brave the streets. They still demand to be heard. They still seek their dignity. 我们承认，即使已经尽己所能，也无法控制每一件事。当无辜者受苦时，我们的良知会备受煎熬。埃利刚才提到了我们的感受：叙利亚人民仅仅因为要求普遍权利，就遭受难以言表的暴力。我们必须尽一切所能。在行动的同时，我们必须记住，尽管坦克和狙击手遍布，尽管酷刑和暴行肆虐，叙利亚人民仍勇敢走上街头。他们仍要求自己的声音被听见，仍在追求自身尊严。
The Syrian people have not given up, which is why we cannot give up. 叙利亚人民没有放弃，因此我们也不能放弃。
And so with allies and partners, we will keep increasing the pressure, with a diplomatic effort to further isolate Assad and his regime, so that those who stick with Assad know that they are making a losing bet. We’ll keep increasing sanctions to cut off the regime from the money it needs to survive. We’ll sustain a legal effort to document atrocities so killers face justice, and a humanitarian effort to get relief and medicine to the Syrian people. And we’ll keep working with the "Friends of Syria" to increase support for the Syrian opposition as it grows stronger. 因此，我们将与盟友和伙伴一道继续加大压力，通过外交努力进一步孤立阿萨德及其政权，让那些仍追随阿萨德的人明白，他们押注的是必输的一方。我们将继续加强制裁，切断该政权赖以生存的资金。我们将持续通过法律努力记录暴行，使凶手受到审判；通过人道努力，把救援物资和药品送到叙利亚人民手中。我们还将继续与“叙利亚之友”合作，在叙利亚反对派日益壮大的同时加大对其支持。
Indeed, today we’re taking another step. I’ve signed an executive order that authorizes new sanctions against the Syrian government and Iran and those that abet them for using technologies to monitor and track and target citizens for violence. These technologies should not empower -- these technologies should be in place to empower citizens, not to repress them. And it’s one more step that we can take toward the day that we know will come -- the end of the Assad regime that has brutalized the Syrian people -- and allow the Syrian people to chart their own destiny. 事实上，今天我们又迈出了一步。我已签署一项行政命令，授权对叙利亚政府、伊朗以及协助它们利用技术监控、追踪公民并将其锁定为暴力目标的人实施新制裁。这些技术不应助长压迫；技术本应赋予公民力量，而不是镇压他们。这是我们为迎接必将到来的那一天所能采取的又一步：残酷迫害叙利亚人民的阿萨德政权终将结束，叙利亚人民将能够规划自己的命运。
Even with all the efforts I’ve described today, even with everything that hopefully we have learned, even with the incredible power of museums like this one, even with everything that we do to try to teach our children about our own responsibilities, we know that our work will never be done. There will be conflicts that are not easily resolved. There will be senseless deaths that aren’t prevented. There will be stories of pain and hardship that test our hopes and try our conscience. And in such moments it can be hard to imagine a more just world. 即使我们作出了我今天所说的一切努力，即使我们有希望从历史中吸取了一切教训，即使像这座纪念馆这样的机构拥有非凡力量，即使我们竭力教导孩子们认识自身责任，我们仍知道，这项工作永远不会完成。有些冲突无法轻易解决，有些毫无意义的死亡未能阻止，也会有痛苦与艰辛的故事考验我们的希望、拷问我们的良知。在这种时刻，人们很难想象一个更加公正的世界。
It can be tempting to throw up our hands and resign ourselves to man’s endless capacity for cruelty. It’s tempting sometimes to believe that there is nothing we can do. And all of us have those doubts. All of us have those moments -- perhaps especially those who work most ardently in these fields. 我们可能会忍不住举手投降，听任人类无休止的残酷本性；有时也会忍不住相信，我们什么也做不了。我们所有人都会有这样的怀疑，都会经历这样的时刻，也许那些在这一领域最热忱工作的人尤其如此。
So in the end, I come back to something Elie said that day we visited Buchenwald together. Reflecting on all that he had endured, he said, "We had the right to give up." "We had the right to give up on humanity, to give up on culture, to give up on education, to give up on the possibility of living one's life with dignity, in a world that has no place for dignity." They had that right. Imagine what they went through. They had the right to give up. Nobody would begrudge them that. Who’d question someone giving up in such circumstances? 所以最后，我又想起我们共同访问布痕瓦尔德那天埃利所说的话。回顾自己所承受的一切，他说：“我们有权放弃。我们有权放弃人性，放弃文化，放弃教育，放弃在一个容不下尊严的世界里有尊严地生活的可能性。”他们确实有这种权利。想想他们经历了什么。他们有权放弃，没有人会因此责怪他们。在那种处境下，又有谁会质疑一个选择放弃的人呢？
But, Elie said, "We rejected that possibility, and we said, no, we must continue believing in a future." To stare into the abyss, to face the darkness and insist there is a future -- to not give up, to say yes to life, to believe in the possibility of justice. 但是，埃利说：“我们拒绝了那种可能。我们说，不，我们必须继续相信未来。”凝视深渊、直面黑暗，却坚持未来依然存在；不放弃，对生命说“是”，相信正义仍有可能。
To Elie and to the survivors who are here today, thank you for not giving up. You show us the way. You show us the way. If you cannot give up, if you can believe, then we can believe. If you can continue to strive and speak, then we can speak and strive for a future where there’s a place for dignity for every human being. That has been the cause of your lives. It must be the work of our nation and of all nations. 埃利，以及今天在场的幸存者们，感谢你们没有放弃。你们为我们指明了道路，你们为我们指明了道路。如果你们都没有放弃，如果你们能够相信，那么我们也能够相信。如果你们能够继续奋斗、继续发声，那么我们也能够为一个人人都有尊严容身之地的未来发声和奋斗。这是你们一生追求的事业，也必须成为我们国家以及所有国家共同承担的工作。
So God bless you. 愿上帝保佑你们。
And God bless the United States of America. 愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。
Thank you very much. 非常感谢大家。