名人英语演讲稿tribute to diana 致戴安娜——查尔斯·斯宾塞在全世界，戴安娜是同情心、责任心、风度和美丽的化身，是无私和人道的象征，是维护真正被践踏的权益的旗手，是一个超越国界的英国女孩，是一个带有自然的高贵气质的人，是一个不分阶层的人。

this is the text of earl spencers tribute to his sister at her funeral. thereis some very deep, powerful and heartfelt sentiment. would that those at whom it isaimed would take heed. the versions posted on several news services had minor errors.this is precisely as it was deliverd.i stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a countryin mourning before a world in shock. we are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to diana but ratherin our need to do so. for such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people takingpart in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actuallymet her, feel that they, too, lost someone close to them in the early hours of sundaymorning. it is a more remarkable tribute to diana than i can ever hope to offer hertoday. today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, eventhough god granted you but half a life. we will all feel cheated, always, that youwere taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came alongat all. only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we wantyou to know that life without you is very, very difficult. we have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength ofthe message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strengthto move forward. there is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory. there is no need to doso. you stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seenas a saint. indeed to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core ofyour being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humor with the laugh that bent youdouble, your joy for life transmitted wherever you took your smile, and the sparklein those unforgettable eyes, your boundless energy which you could barely contain. but your greatest gift was your intuition, and it was a gift you used wisely.this is what underpinned all your wonderful attributes. and if we look to analyzewhat it was about you that had such a wide appeal, we find it in your instinctivefeel for what was really important in all our lives. without your god-given sensitivity, we would be immersed in greater ignoranceat the anguish of aids and hiv sufferers, the plight of the homeless, the isolationof lepers, the random destruction of land mines. diana explained to me once that itwas her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible for her to connect withher constituency of the rejected. the world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for hervulnerability, whilst admiring her for her honesty. the last time i saw diana wason july the first, her birthday, in london, when typically she was not taking timeto celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honor at a fund-raisingcharity evening. she sparkled of course, but i would rather cherish the days i spent with her inmarch when she came to visit me and my children in our home in south africa. i amproud of the fact that apart from when she was on public display meeting presidentmandela, we managed to contrive to stop the ever-present paparazzi from getting asingle picture of her. that meant a lot to her. these were days i will always treasure. it was as if wed been transported backto our childhood, when we spent such an enormous amount of time together, the twoyoungest in the family.fundamentally she hadnt changed at all from the big sister who mothered me asa baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between ourparents homes with me at weekends. it is a tribute to her level-headedness and strengththat despite the most bizarre life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact,true to herself. there is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at thistime. she talked endlessly of getting away from england, mainly because of the treatment shereceived at the hands of the newspapers.i dont think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneeredat by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bringher down. it is baffling. my own, and only, explanation is that genuine goodness isthreatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. it is a point to remember that of all the ironies about diana, perhaps the greatestwas this; that a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in theend, the most hunted person of the modern age. she would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys williamand harry from a similar fate. and i do this here, diana, on your behalf. we willnot allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearfuldespair. beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, i pledge that we, your bloodfamily, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which youwere steering these two exceptional young men, so that their souls are not simplyimmersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned. we fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born, and will alwaysrespect and encourage them in their royal role. but we, like you, recognize the needfor them to experience as many different aspects of life as possible, to arm themspiritually and emotionally for the years ahead. i know you would have expectednothing less from us. william and harry, we all care desperately for you today. we are all chewed upwith sadness at the loss of a woman who wasnt even our mother. how great your sufferingis we cannot even imagine.i would like to end by thanking god for the small mercies he has shown us at thisdreadful time; for taking diana at her most beautiful and radiant and when she hadjoy in her private life.------------------------------------ it is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at yale, especially on theoccasion of the 300th anniversary. i have had so many memories of my time here, andas nick was speaking i thought about how i ended up at yale law school. and it tellsa little bit about how much progress we’ve made. what i think most about when i think of yale is not just the politically chargedatmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that i received. it was atyale that i began work that has been at the core of what i have cared about ever since.i began working with new haven legal services representing children. and i studiedchild development, abuse and neglect at the yale new haven hospital and the childstudy center. i was lucky enough to receive a civil rights internship with marianwright edelman at the children’s defense fund, where i went to work after i graduated.those experiences fueled in me a passion to work for the benefit of children,particularly the most vulnerable. now, looking back, there is no way that i could have predicted what path my lifewould have taken. i didn’t sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, i thinki’ll graduate and then i’ll go to work at the children’s defense fund, and thenthe impeachment inquiry, and nixon retired or resigns, i’ll go to arkansas. i didn’t think like that. i was taking each day at a time. but, i’ve been very fortunate because i’ve always had an idea in my mind aboutwhat i thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose. a set of valuesand beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacheroussea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that others say about what l shouldcare about and believe in. a passion to succeed at what l thought was important andchildren have always provided that lone star, that guiding light. because l have thatabsolute conviction that every child, especially in this, the most blessed of nationsthat has ever existed on the face of earth, that every child deserves the opportunityto live up to his or her god-given potential. but you know that belief and conviction-it may make for a personal missionstatement, but standing alone, not translated into action, it means very little toanyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those concerns. when i was thinking about running for the united states senate-which was suchan enormous decision to make, one i never could have dreamed that i would have beenmaking when i was here on campus-i visited a school in new york city and i met a young woman, whowas a star athlete. and it doesn’t mean that once having made that choice you will always succeed.in fact, you won’t. there are setbacks and you will experience difficult disappointments. you will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just be knockedout of you. but if you carry with you the values and beliefs that you can make adifference in your own life, first and foremost, and then in the lives of others.you can get back up, you can keep going. but it is also important, as i have found, not to take yourself too seriously,because after all, every one of us here today, none of us is deserving of full credit.i think every day of the blessings my birth gave me without any doing of my own. ichose neither my family nor my country, but they as much as anything i’ve ever done,determined my course. you have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that it wasthe right thing to do and because it gave something back to you. you have dared tocare. well, dare to care to fight for equal justice for all, for equal pay for women,against hate crimes and bigotry. dare to care about public schools without qualifiedteachers or adequate resources. dare to care about protecting our environment. dareto care about the 10 million children in our country who lack health insurance. dareto care about the one and a half million children who have a parent in jail. the sevenmillion people who suffer from hiv/aids. and thank you for caring enough to demandthat our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world withhiv/aids, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further. and so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. dare to helpmake, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics. some havecalled you the generation of choice. you’ve been raised with multiple choice tests,multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles. you’ve grown upchoosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available topeople in prior generations. you’ve been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, tomake more free choices about how to live than was ever thought possible. and i thinkas i look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not onlyfreedom, but personal responsibility. the social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positivestory: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides,drunk driving deaths being down. it is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather it’s a silentconspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in ourpopular culture and in our prodigious consumerism. but as many have said before and as vaclav havel has said to memorably, “it cannotsuffice just to invent new machines, new regulations and new institutions. it isnecessary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of ourexistence on this earth and of our deeds.” and i think we are called on to reject,in this time of blessings that we enjoy, those who will tear us apart and tear usdown and instead to liberate our god-given spirit, by being willing to dare to dreamof a better world. during my campaign, when times were tough and days were long i used to think aboutthe example of harriet tubman, a heroic new yorker, a 19th century moses, who riskedher life to bring hundreds of slaves to freedom. she would say to those who she gatheredup in the south where she kept going back year after year from the safety of auburn,new york, that no matter what happens, they had to keep going. if they heard shoutsbehind them, they had to keep going. if they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keepgoing to freedom. well, those aren’t the risks we face. it is more the silence andapathy and indifference that dogs our heels. thirty-two years ago, i spoke at my own graduation from wellesley, where i didcall on my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability toeffect change and instead to embrace the idea that the goal of education should be human liberation and thefreedom to practice with all the skill of our being the art of making possible. thank you and god bless you all.篇三：名人英文励志演讲稿名人英文励志演讲稿新一代大学英语四六级领军人物，英语专家、文化学者、出版人、策划人，“振宇英语”创始人，当当网外语图书热门作者。