Virginia Tech悲劇之後，知名詩人教授Nikki Giovanni鼓勵演說(簡短有力)

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演講原文(By Nikki Giovanni on April 17, 2007) :

(真不愧昰有名的詩人，在演講完後全場十幾秒的靜默，之後爆出如雷的掌聲 ，並引起全場高喊該校運動口號Let's go Hokies!)

We are Virginia Tech.
We are sad today.
And we will be sad for quite a while .
We are not moving on .
We are embracing our mourning .
We are Virginia Tech .
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly .
We are brave enough to bend to cry ...
and sad enough to know we must laugh again .
We are Virginia Tech .
We do not understand this tragedy .
We know we did nothing to deserve it .
But neither does a child in Africa dying of aids .
Neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army .
Neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory .
Neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water .
Neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of night in his crib in the home its father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destablized .
No one deserves a tragedy .
We are Virginia Tech .
The Hokie nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds .
We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid .
We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be .
We are alive to the imagination and the possibility .
We will continue to invent the future
Through our blood and tears
Through all this sadness
We are the Hokies .
We will prevail .
We will prevail .
We will prevail .
We are Virginia Tech.