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Let Us All Be Heard  让我们被倾听

By Oprah Winfrey  奥普拉·温芙瑞

New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">美国脱口秀名星奥普拉·温芙瑞绝对是美国娱乐界的重量级名人。同时奥普拉还是最慷慨的慈善家中第一个黑人妇女，她主动在美国国内国外捐了一亿七千五百万美元用于教育事业，在她的天使网络工程中，所有的捐款都用于了公益事业，成立了奥普拉·温芙瑞基金会。下面是她获得鲍勃·霍普人道主义奖的得奖感言。

There really is nothing more important to me than striving to be a good human being. So, to be here tonight and be acknowledged as the first to receive this honor is beyond expression in words for me.

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We all are just regular people seeking the same thing — we all just want to know that we matter. We want validation. We want the same things. We want safety and we want to live a long life. We want to find somebody to love. We want to find somebody to laugh with and have the power and the place to cry with when necessary.

The greatest pain in life is to be invisible. What I’ve learned is that we all just want to be heard. And I thank all the people who continue to let me hear your stories, and by sharing your stories, you let other people see themselves and for a moment, glimpse the power to change and the power to triumph.

Maya Angelou said, “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” I want you to know that this award to me means that I will continue to strive to give back to the world what it has given to me, so that I might even be more worthy of tonight’s honor.

对我来说，真的没有什么比争取做一个好人更重要了。所以，今晚有幸被选为第一个获得这项殊荣的人，我实在无法用言语来表达自己的感受。

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我们都是普普通通的人，追求共同的东西——我们想要知道我们的存在是重要的。我们需要被认同。我们需要的都是些同样的东西：我们想要安全感，想要长寿。我们想要找到爱的人。我们想要找人一起欢笑，在有需要的时候有勇气找个地方放声大哭。

生命中最痛苦的事莫过于别人对你视而不见。我想我们都希望别人能够听到自己的声音。我感谢那些一直让我倾听你们故事的人，通过与人分享你们的故事，你们让别人看见他们真实的自己，并在那个时候，瞥见改变和取胜的动力。

马雅·安琪罗说过：“当你学会了，就要去教人；当你获得了，就要去给予。”我希望你们知道，获得这个奖项对我来说意味着我会继续努力，用我从社会中获得的一切来回馈社会，这样我才能不愧今晚的荣誉。