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第一篇:A tAle of Two Cities

A tAle of Two Cities

As my desk-mAte told me About the love story of the book, i wAs AttrActed by it. so it is the reAson why i wAnt to reAd this book And shAre it with you.

‘A tAle of Two Cities’ is one book of ‘chArles dickens’, A 19th century english writer who often criticize the society of englAnd And reAlism. the novel is mAinly About exposing the society contrAdiction before the french revolution And indicAting the fAte of englAnd which will be the sAme As frAnce. it is obvious thAt the Two Cities Are pAris And london And the story hAppened between these Two Cities. it hAppened in one evening of december, 1757. dr. mAnAtee wAs forced to pAy A home visit by mArquis st. evremonde. At the home of mArquis st. evremonde the honest And kind doctor sAw the merciless killing AffAir, ‘mArquis st. evremonde brothers rAped A beAutiful peAsAnt womAn just for momentAry cArnAl pleAsure And killed her whole fAmily And A teenAger who wAs hurt by the sword’. the doctor refused to receive the bribery And sent A messAge to the government to impeAch the mArquis st. evremonde. but it wAs so unfortunAtely thAt the messAge wAs hold by the mArquis st. evremonde. so he wAs sent to prison. his wife died Two yeArs lAter And his dAughter lucie mAnAtee wAs brought up by his good friend jArvis lorry And wAs token cAre of by miss pross.18 yeArs lAter, his dAughter found him And took him AwAy from the prison to englAnd with the help of jArvis lorry. they lived A hAppy live there. during the dAy stAying in london, lucie encountered chArles dAnnAy And fell in love with eAch other. when dr. mAnAtee found thAt chArles dAnnAy wAs the son of mArquis st. evremonde, he didn’t breAk up this couple of love. but he forgAve chArles dAnnAy with his kindheArtedness. becAuse chArles dAnnAy wAs A good mAn who wAs different from his fAther. he escApes from his fAmily with chAnging

his nAme And gAve up inheriting the fAmily’s big fortune.

dr. mAnAtee’s old servAnts, the defrAgs, were the leAder of the french revolution. his hotel wAs the point of revolutionAry Activities. they hAted vicious AristocrAts And wrote down All bAd things these AristocrAts hAd done to tAke revenge in the lAter dAys. becAuse of it, chArles dAnnAy wAs innocently involved in And wAs sent to prison Two times. the first time he wAs fortunAtely sAved by lAwyer. As he wAs Arrested bAck to the prison, the pArAlegAl, sydney cArton, who Also loved lucie volunteered to get into the prison to substitute dAnnAy to die becAuse of he wAs so similAr to mr. dAnnAy. in the end dAnnAy And lucie lived with eAch other hAppily. i like this moving story, especiAlly the selfless sydney cArton. on the guillotine, cArton cAlmly dedicAted himself for the love, fulfilling others. the humAn nAture of these kind people in the novel stAnds in stArk contrAst to those AristocrAts.

the novel describe vividly About the evil of those AristocrAts. for An instAnce, mArquis st. evremonde AlwAys tyrAnnized the poor people And did everything he wAnts to do. one dAy, when he rode crAzily in the cArriAge As if nothing wAs being occurred his cArriAge rAn over A fArmer’s child. becAuse of it, finAlly, the child’s fAther slew him with the sword. it indicAted thAt the storm of A revolution s brewing. the novel profoundly reveAled thAt the french revolution deeply hAs shArpened the sociAl contrAdictions, And strongly AttAcked the noble clAss's dissolute brutAlity, And deeply sympAthized with the sufferings of the working-clAss people.the Author Also pointedly sAid, people's pAtience is limited. under the noble clAss's brutAl regime, if people wAnt to live they must rAise up AgAinst the noble. And this resistAnce is justice.of course, the book hAs described the spectAculAr scene working-clAss people fought AgAinst the bAstille And expressed the people's greAt strength. the Author stood in the

humAnitAriAn stAndpoint, AgAinst cruel oppression of people's tyrAnny, And Also AgAinst the revolutionAry people’s extreme violence.

so whAt the reAl things the Author wAnts to express is on the bAsis of the love between of the young couple, lucie And dAnnAy. the one wAs A victim of the noble’s tyrAnny but wAs Also tolerAnt; the other one wAs the heir of the noble but Also clAimed of love. with the mAintenAnce of love, they form A mutuAl understAnding, hAppy And hArmonious fAmily. this is obviously thAt the Author thought thAt the love between people wAs the only wAy to resolve sociAl contrAdictions AgAinst the ideA of A violent revolution from the rAtionAl thinking And humAnitAriAn position.

After reAding the book, there Are Two people who give me deep impression. one is the fAther of child who wAs killed by cArriAge. he wAs so poor when he lost his child. but the bAd noble, mArquis st. evremonde, never felt guilt, even throw very few pounds to comfort him. so he wAs too Angry to stAnd it. so he killed mArquis st. evremonde At A night without thinking About the terrible consequence. it is just becAuse of the love of A fAther. if i wAs the mother of thAt child, And i would do the sAme thing As him to revenge As in thAt period we hAd no other wAy to find the justice. the other one is sydney cArton. he loved lucie so much thAt he could die for her. some people mAy think he wAs so stupid. but i think his love wAs selfless. if i wAs the one who he loved And i loved him, i will be the hAppiest girl in the world. And i wAnt to emphAsize AgAin thAt it is the reAson why i wAnt to reAd this book.

there Are evil people everywhere, but more good people. love And hAte, killing AffAirs And sAving lives, All of these exist. whAt we cAn do is to be good to others but not to dAmAge others. then the world will become more And more hArmonious.

第二篇:A tAle of Two Cities

“A tAle of Two Cities”

"A tAle of Two Cities" is one of dickens's most importAnt representAtive works.the novel profoundly exposed the society contrAdiction before the french revolution,intensely AttAcks the AristocrAtic sociAl clAss is dissolute And cruel,And sincerely sympAthizes with the depressed clAsses.And in the novel there Also described mAny like the revolt people AttAcked bAstille And so on,which displAyed people's greAt strength,And mAybe this is the highlight of this story.

At the very beginning , st.Antoine—A pArt in pAris, hAd been mentioned .it wAs cAlled one the poorest pArts in pAris. there,the children hAd the fAces And sAd voices of old men.hunger seemed to be written on the fAces of every mAn And womAn,so when A lArge bArrel of wine hAd been dropped And broken in the street of st.Antoine.quickly,All the people neAr by like A group of begger left whAtever they were diong,And rAn to get some of the red wine.for A time,in thAt street of poverty And misery,there wAs filled with A joyful sound of lAughter.but soon All the wine wAs gone,the lAughter died down And the miserAble people returned whAt they hAd been doing before.the vivid description At beginning pAved the for lAter mAgnificent scenes thAt would hAppen.

the novel hAs portrAyed mAny different people. doctor mAnette is honest And kind but suffers the persecution ActuAlly , lucie is beAutiful And gentle ,chArles is grAceful And noble,lorry is upright And honest,sydney is semblAnce of indifferent,innermost feelings of wArm,unconventionAl but Also selfless And lofty,miss pross is strAightforwArd And loyAl,evremonde brothers Are cruel And sinister…the couples of defArge And the other revolutionlist.

doctor mAnette,A prisoner ever hAd been put in the bAstille prison And his fAmilies hAd been persecuted by feudAl AristocrAcy.And once A time he wAs touched until his dAughter found him in the shop of monsieur defArge.After then,he And his dAughter lucie turned bAck to london And he seemed to be A normAl people.lucie,becAuse her beAuty And gentle,wAs loved by both chArles And sydney,but lucie loved chArles, whAt’s more,she didn’t know sydney Adored her,And At lAst,lucie And chArles got mArried.in the story ,chArles And sydney shAred the sAme ApperAnce.this coincidence prepAred for the plot thAt sydney went to the prison to chAnge roles with chArles.the couples of defArge,who lived in st.Antoine,they sAw the AristocrAcy persecuted their sibling,the sAvAge of upper clAss in the Accident in pAris stimulAted people’s Anger And hAte of the AristocrAcy. All the dissAtisfAction AppeAred on everyone’s fAce,especilly on mAdAme defArge,they could do nothing bu to suffer.the complex hAtred is hArd to solve, the cruel revenge hAs mAde more hAtreds. After thenthe cry of crowd,led to the revolution.the crowd seized the governer of the prison,And then he wAs struck from behind And fell deAd.so the revolution begAn And so it continued. st.Antoine’s dAy hAd come And st.Antoine wAs Angry.mAybe becAuse of the oppression,the people there hAd been hArdened in the fires of suffering,they were meciless,And never hAd the touch of pity.

chArles And sydney ,A french mAn And An englAnd mAn,becAuse of lucie,their fortune hAd chAnged totAlly. chArles wAs A AristocrAcy in frAnce,for his hAtred of his

clAn,so he escAped to englAnd And lived A compArAtively life.sydney,the AssistAnt of mr.stryver(who hAd defended him),so they knew eAch other from then on.but one dAy,chArles received A letter from gAbelle,his servAnt.chArles’s mind wAs very disturbed by this letter,so he decided to went bAck to frAnce to sAve sAve his old servAnt from the deAth.but At thAt time,the situAtion wAs turbulent in frAnce Although the cAtchword wAs “liberty,equAlity And frAternity”.on the wAy to frAnce,the new lAw wAs issued,And it condemned to deAth All fugitive who return.obviously chArles wAs seized.when the news cAme to his relAtives in englAnd,All of them worried About him.therefore,lucie And Another people returned to frAnce,then they tried every wAy to sAve him,in the end ,by the virtue of dr.mAnette’s greAt populArity, chArles wAs sAfe.but good time didn’t lAst long,with A sound of A knock At the door,chArles wAs Accused by the couples of defArge.this time,After the doctor’s story wAs told to crowd in the court,the terrible sound rose up from the people in the court—A cry for blood.there,roAr And roAr,no one could sAve chArles AgAin.lucie wAs very sAd And despAiring when she heArd this grievious news.sydney,then,he wAs Ached,becAue he did not wAnt to see his beloved womAn so suffering.in thAt cAse,he decided to insteAd chArles’s deAth,becAuse he sAid he love lucie,little lucie,so he wAnt to help lucie found her love bAck And reAlized his vAlue of life.

At lAst,chArles wAs survived,but sydney wAs died under the guillotine.After sydney died,some people sAid of him,in the city thAt night,thAt it wAs the most peAceful fAce ever seen there.the only words i hAve remembered”it is A fAr,fAr better thing thAt i do,thAn i hAve ever done;it is A fAr,fAr better rest thAt i go to thAn i hAve ever known.”from these we cAn sAy love rebirth in the hell edge,but tAke the life As the price.

As for An outstAnding writer,in dickens's work,the lAnguAge skill is essentiAl.eAch kind of rhetoric technique,like the AnAlogy,the exAggerAtion,the contrAst,the humorous,And the tAunt Are hAndled skillfully,And the Artistry of the work is Also delivered the peAk."A tAle of Two Cities" hAs its difference with the generAl historicAl novel, its chArActer And the mAin plot Are All fictionAlizes.with the broAd reAl bAckground of the french revolution,the Author tAke the plot is criss-crossed,And the clue is complex. the nArrAtes,foreshAdowing,upholstery And so mAny techniques,cAuses the structure integrity And strictness,the plot winding Anxious And rich of theAtricAl nAture,it displAyed the remArkAble Artistic skill.the style "A tAle of Two Cities" is solemnity And melAncholy,fills indignAntion,but lAcks the humor of the eArly works.

for Author’s purpose,he wAnt to rely on the revolution in frAnce to wArn the bourgeoisie of englAnd.it is A mAsterpiece of dicken,some vivid words And some sAtiric words exposed the socity deeply.on one hAnd,Auther represents the Aspect of devil,for exAmple,the revolutionists’ figure hAve been distorted.on the other hAnd,there is A moving Act About the chArActer sydney,thAt is in order to help his rivAl eAcApe from deAth,he devoted his own life.these Two shArp contrAct mAke the whole story more vAluAble And meAningful.

第三篇:A tAle of Two Cities

After reAdingA tAle of Two Cities

A tAle of Two Cities is one of dickens's most importAnt representAtive works. the story is set in london And pAris At the time of the greAt french revolution. it shows the cAuses of revolution And its effects on people's everydAy lives. before the revolution, the king And the AristocrAcy treAted their people cruelly in frAnce. the common people were extremely poor And miserAble. the crops in the fields were poor As if even the lAnd shAred the misery of the people. And there were so heAvy tAxes thAt All the villAgers hAd nothing to hAnd over At lAst. on the other hAnd, the AristocrAcy mAde their will As the lAw by using money And gold. there were no justice, no equAlity And no fAirness.

the novel hAs portrAyed Two pAirs of vivid people, who i like most, one pAir is dr. mAnette And mr. cArdon, And Another is miss pross And mrs. defArge.

becAuse of his occupAtion, dr. mAnette hAs witnessed mArquis evremonde brothers’ crimes. And he wrote to the minister to show the crime whAt mArquis evremonde hAd done, resulting in himself being Arrested And sent to the prison bAstille without Any reAson. much As he suffered, dr. mAnette didn’t hAve Any ideA of revenge. when he wAs free, dr. mAnette just went bAck to briton with his only dAughter lucie. however, the story didn’t come to An end. lucie mArried A mAn, who wAs the son of mArquiss evremonde, dArnAy. for lucie’ hAppiness, dr. mAnette hAd forgAve All the defense dArnAy’ fAmily do to him, even in the following future, tried to rescue dArnAy from the bAstille. the quAlities in dr. mAnette (brAveness, self-surrenderness And reAlity) Are the indispensAble content Among dickens’s morel criteriA.

At the first glAnce of mr. cArdon, i don’t like this guy At All. Although mr. cArdon wAsn’t A hero, there wAs AlwAys A mysterious color Around him. mr. cArdon hAd A good educAtion, but still couldn’t succeed in his cArrel. in the normAl life, mr. cArdon wAs A young mAn with confusion. it wAs on the triAl of dArnAy thAt mr. cArdon’s tAlent functioned the first time. he found thAt they hAd A similAr fAce, which wAs cruciAl in his defend for dArnAy. thAt wAs A prerequisite for his rescuing dArnAy in the end. even if he wAs considered degenerAte by the upper clAss in the society, or in other words, showed A low stAndArd of morAls or behAviors, mr. cArdon hAd reserved A plAce for the girl he loved And for his dreAm. in thAt cruel revolution, mr. cArdon sAcrificed his own life for the girl he loves, lucie. dickens holds thAt love ship of this kind which is At the expense of life is recAll to life, As god sAys,“one believe me would be immortAl.” from mr. cArdon, especiAlly the prAyer he sAid before execution, we cAn see the loyAlty towArds god, both mr. cArdon And dickens.

miss pross wAs one of those women who thought nothing of their own needs And who, through pure love And AdmirAtion, Are reAdy to mAke themselves slAves to youth when they hAve lost it, to beAuty which they hAve never hAd, And to bright hopes thAt hAve never shone upon their own dArk lives. we could see it At mAny very triviAl thing. for exAmple, miss pross rushed into the room As she heArd lucie wAs n’t well, when lucie met mr. jArvis lorry the first time. “ And you in brown!” she sAid, indignAntly

turning to mr. lorry; “couldn’t you tell her whAt you hAd to tell her, without frightening her to deAth? look At her, with pAle fAce And her cold hAnds. do you cAll thAt being A bAnker?” miss pross love lucie sincerely. As mr. lorry sAid, "there is nothing better in the world thAn the honest service of the heArt". since miss pross hAd become like A mother to lucie And would hAve given her life for her, she would do everything she could to keep mrs. defArge in the house so thAt the cArriAge cArrying lucie could run fArther.

compAred to miss pross, mrs. defArge wAs A womAn who wAs Almost controlled by her hAtred. generAl speAking, mrs. defArge wAs A womAn with A very keen eye, A strong fAce And A greAt cAlmness of mAnner. the most impressive impression mrs. dAfArge left to me wAs the never-finished knitting. i wAs wAndering how mrs. defArge knitted those nAmes of whom they considered to be enemy. mrs. defArge’s fAther, brother And sisters were killed by evremonde brothers. when the french revolution broke out, it wAs her who led the womAn And cut off the heAd of the governor of the prison. mrs. defArge hAd A strong, feArless And A kind of beAuty thAt cAlled Attention to her quAlities. she hAd grown up with A deep sense of wrong And A powerful hAtred of the AristocrAcy; Any pity thAt she once mAy hAve hAd wAs now deAd. to her, dArnAy's fAmily must be destroyed; the wife And child must follow the fAther. so to speAk, through her deAth, dickens expressed his humAnitAriAnism. though we mAy fell sympAthy with those suffering common people ,thAt doesn’t meAn thAt whAtever they do is justified. it is eAsy to find thAt dickens hAs the sAme Attitude towArds them As us.while these four figures Are not All the most importAnt figures Among so mAny people in this novel, they hAve certAin chArActeristic AttrActing me.

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第四篇:A tAle of Two Cities

A tAle of Two Cities

the Author

dickens, chArles

(born feb. 7, 1812, portsmouth, hAmpshire, eng.-died june 9, 1870, gAd's hill, neAr chAthAm, kent) british novelist, generAlly considered the greAtest of the victoriAn period.his fiction cAreer begAn with short pieces reprinted As sketches by “boz” (1836). he exhibited A greAt Ability to spin A story in An entertAining mAnner And this quAlity, combined with the seriAlizAtion of his comic novel the pickwick pApers (1837), mAde him the most populAr english Author of his time. the seriAlizAtion of such works As oliver twist (1838) And the old curiosity shop (1841) followed. A tAle of Two Cities (1859) AppeAred in the period when he Achieved greAt populArity for his public reAdings. dickens's works Are chArActerized by An encyclopAedic knowledge of london, pAthos, A vein of the mAcAbre, A pervAsive spirit of benevolence And geniAlity, inexhAustible powers of chArActer creAtion, An Acute eAr for chArActeristic speech, And A highly individuAl And inventive prose style.

bAckground

the novel profoundly exposed the society contrAdiction before the french revolution, intensely AttAcks the AristocrAtic sociAl clAss is dissolute And cruel, And sincerely sympAthizes with the depressed clAsses.

plot

18 yeArs before in 1757, becAuse of knowing A terrible secret, dr. mAnette wAs picked up And sent to the bAstille--- one of the most terrible prisons in the world, by the noble mArquis st. evremonde. 18 yeArs After in 1775, his only dAughter, lucie mAnette, fell in love with chArles dArnAy, the nephew of the mArquis st. evremonde, which AbAndoned the noble degree to live by himself.

 “let the pAst be pAst.” thought dr. mArnette, And wAs prepAring to hAve A hAppy new life with his dAughter And her hus bAnd. but the revolution of frAnce broke, And becAuse of his fAmily, chArles dArnAy wAs denounced--- denounced by A letter which wAs wrote by dr. mArnette himself 18 yeArs Ago! whAt A cruel strike! isn’t it? though he wAs innocent, poor chArles would hAve been sent to the guillotine.

the story seems to be over thus fAr, but, wAit! there is Another mAn we might refer to, thAt is sydney cArton, the lAwyer of englAnd, the good friend of mAnette’s fAmilies, who took After chArles very much. it wAs he, finAlly be killed insteAd by his own mind. why? As you mAy Ask, i wAnt to Ask the sAme question. thAt is becAuse---i guess---love. And of course, the hope, yes, the hope. when sydney wAs killed As chArles, there wAs much hope on his fAce. whAt wAs he thinking About As he went to his deAth? if we could hAve listened to his thoughts, we might hAve heArd beAutiful things:

“it’s the time. mAy god forgive me. but i see the deAth of All who hAte. i see A new frAnce, growing from out of the old. i see A beAutiful pAris filled with hAppy people.

And i see the lives which i hAve sAved. they Are hAppy in englAnd. there is A boy-child in

lucre’s Arms. And he is nAmed sydney. he will grow old And bring love to my nAme.

it is A fAr, fAr better thing thAt i do thAn i hAve ever done. it is A fAr, fAr better rest thAt i go to thAn i hAve ever known.

lAnguAge skill

As An outstAnding writer, in dickens's work, the lAnguAge skill is essentiAl. eAch kind of rhetoric technique, like the AnAlogy, the exAggerAtion, the contrAst, the humorous, And the tAunt Are hAndled skillfully And the Artistry of the work is Also delivered the peAk. “A tAle of Two Cities" hAs its difference with the generAl historicAl novel, its chArActer And the mAin plot Are All fictionAlizes. with the broAd reAl bAckground of the french revolution, the Author tAke the fictionAl chArActer doctor mAnette's experience As the mAin clue, interweAves the unjust chArge, love And revenge three independences but Also incident cross-correlAtion stories together, the plot is criss-crossed, And the clue is complex. the Author use insert nArrAtes, foreshAdowing, upholstery And so mAny techniques, cAuses the structure integrity And strictness, the plot winding Anxious And rich of theAtricAl nAture, it displAyed the remArkAble Artistic skill. the style "A tAle of Two Cities” is solemnity And melAncholy, fills indignAntion, but lAcks the humor of the eArly works.

comment

A tAle of Two Cities is A historicAl story, one of dickens long fictions. it portrAyed A brutAl And bloody story , but it Also contAined love And friendship.

dickens hAd deAr love And hAte. he prAised those who ought to be prAised , like lucie, who took cAre of her fAther, doctor mAnette ,After his releAsing from prison And helped himreturn to normAl, who finAlly got true love. he AttAcked those who ought to be AttAcked, such As mArquis of evermonde , who killed people just As eAsily As they killed chickens. hedeprived other people’s freedom As he liked And he thought it wAs normAl And unremArkAble. As An old sAying goes: people who commit too mAny crimes will kill themselves. mArquis of evermonde eventruAlly killed himself.

the motivAtion of the novel mAybe just wArn the english dominAtors. but i think we cAn leArn something meAningful from A tAle of Two Cities.

第五篇:A tAle of Two Cities

mArio cuomo: "A tAle of Two Cities"

on behAlf of the empire stAte And the fAmily of new york, i thAnk you for the greAt privilege of being Able to Address this convention. pleAse Allow me to skip the stories And the poetry And the temptAtion to deAl in nice but vAgue rhetoric. let me insteAd use this vAluAble opportunity to deAl immediAtely with questions thAt should determine this election And thAt we All know Are vitAl to the AmericAn people.

ten dAys Ago, president reAgAn Admitted thAt Although some people in this country seemed to be doing well nowAdAys, others were unhAppy, even worried, About themselves, their fAmilies And their futures. the president sAid thAt he didn't understAnd thAt feAr. he sAid, "why, this country is A shining city on A hill." And the president is right. in mAny wAys we Are A shining city on A hill.

but the hArd truth is thAt not everyone is shAring in this city's splendor And glory. A shining city is perhAps All the president sees from the portico of the white house And the verAndA of his rAnch, where everyone seems to be doing well. but there's Another city; there's Another pArt to the shining the city; the pArt where some people cAn't pAy their mortgAges, And most young people cAn't Afford one, where students cAn't Afford the educAtion they need, And middle-clAss pArents wAtch the dreAms they hold for their children evAporAte.

in this pArt of the city there Are more poor thAn ever, more fAmilies in trouble, more And more people who need help but cAn't find it. even worse: there Are elderly people who tremble in the bAsements of the houses there. And there Are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesn't show. there Are ghettos where thousAnds of young people, without A job or An educAtion, give their lives AwAy to drug deAlers every dAy. there is despAir, mr. president, in the fAces thAt you don't see, in the plAces thAt you don't visit in your shining city.

in fAct, mr. president, this is A nAtion --. mr. president you ought to know thAt this nAtion is more A "tAle of Two Cities" thAn it is just A "shining city on A hill."

mAybe, mAybe, mr. president, if you visited some more plAces. mAybe if you went to AppAlAchiA where some people still live in sheds, mAybe if you went to lAckAwAnnA where thousAnds of unemployed steel workers wonder why we subsidized foreign steel. mAybe, mAybe, mr. president, if you stopped in At A shelter in chicAgo And spoke to the homeless there; mAybe, mr. president, if you Asked A womAn who hAd been denied the help she needed to feed her children becAuse you sAid you needed the money for A tAx breAk for A millionAire or for A missile we couldn't Afford to use.

mAybe, mAybe, mr. president. but i'm AfrAid not.

becAuse, the truth is, lAdies And gentlemen, thAt this is how we were wArned it would be. president reAgAn told us from very the beginning thAt he believed in A kind of sociAl dArwinism. survivAl of the fittest. "government cAn't do everything," we were told. "so it should settle for tAking cAre of the strong And hope thAt economic Ambition And chArity will do the rest. mAke the rich richer -- And whAt fAlls from their tAble will be enough for the middle clAss And those who Are trying desperAtely to work their wAy into the middle clAss."

you know, the republicAns cAlled it trickle-down when hoover tried it. now they cAll it supply side. but it's the sAme shining city for those relAtive few who Are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. but for the people who Are excluded -- for the people who Are locked out -- All they cAn do is to stAre from A distAnce At thAt city's glimmering towers.

it's An old story. it's As old As our history. the difference between democrAts And republicAns hAs AlwAys been meAsured in courAge And confidence. the republicAns believe thAt the wAgon trAin will not mAke it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weAk Are left behind by the side of the trAil. the strong, the strong they tell us will inherit the lAnd.

we democrAts believe in something else. we democrAts believe thAt we cAn mAke it All the wAy with the whole fAmily intAct. And, we hAve more thAn once. ever since frAnklin roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchAir to lift this nAtion from its knees -- wAgon trAin After wAgon trAin -- to new frontiers of educAtion, housing, peAce; the whole fAmily AboArd, constAntly reAching out to extend And enlArge thAt fAmily; lifting them up into the wAgon on the wAy; blAcks And hispAnics, And people of every ethnic group, And nAtive AmericAns -- All those struggling to build their fAmilies And clAim some smAll shAre of AmericA.

for neArly 50 yeArs we cArried them All to new levels of comfort, And security, And dignity, even Affluence. And remember this, some of us in this room todAy Are here only becAuse this nAtion hAd thAt kind of confidence. And it would be wrong to forget thAt.

so, here we Are At this convention to remind ourselves where we come from And to clAim the future for ourselves And for our children. todAy our greAt democrAtic pArty, which hAs sAved this nAtion from depression, from fAscism, from rAcism, from corruption, is cAlled upon to do it AgAin -- this time to sAve the nAtion from confusion And division, from the threAt of eventuAl fiscAl disAster, And most of All from the feAr of A nucleAr holocAust.

thAt's not going to be eAsy. mo udAll is exActly right, it's not going to be eAsy. in order to succeed, we must Answer our opponent's polished And AppeAling rhetoric with A more telling reAsonAbleness And rAtionAlity.

we must win this cAse on the merits. we must get the AmericAn public to look pAst the glitter, beyond the showmAnship - to reAlity, to the hArd substAnce of things. And we will do thAt not so much with speeches thAt sound good As with speeches thAt Are good And sound. not so much with speeches thAt will bring people to their feet As with speeches thAt bring people to their senses. we must mAke the AmericAn people heAr our "tAle of Two Cities." we must convince them thAt we don't hAve to settle for Two Cities, thAt we cAn hAve one city, indivisible, shining for All of its people.

now we will hAve no chAnce to do thAt if whAt comes out of this convention is A bAbel of Arguing voices. if thAt's whAt's heArd throughout the cAmpAign - dissident voices from All sides - we will hAve no chAnce to tell our messAge. to succeed we will hAve to surrender smAll pArts of our individuAl interests, to build A plAtform we cAn All stAnd on, At once, comfortAbly - proudly singing out the truth for the nAtion to heAr, in chorus, its logic so cleAr And commAnding thAt no slick commerciAl, no Amount of geniAlity, no mArtiAl music will be Able to muffle the sound of the truth. we democrAts must unite.

we democrAts must unite so thAt the entire nAtion cAn unite becAuse surely the republicAns won't bring this country together. their policies divide the nAtion - into the lucky And the left-out, into the royAlty And the rAbble. the republicAns Are willing to treAt thAt division As victory. they would cut this nAtion in hAlf, into those temporArily better off And those worse off thAn before, And they would cAll thAt division recovery.

we should not, we should not be embArrAssed or dismAyed or chAgrined if the process of unifying is difficult, even wrenching At times. remember thAt, unlike Any other pArty, we embrAce men And women of every color, every creed, every orientAtion, every economic clAss. in our fAmily Are gAthered everyone from the Abject poor of essex county in new york, to the enlightened Affluent of the gold coAsts At both ends of the nAtion. And in between is the heArt of our constituency. the middle clAss -- the people not rich enough to be worry-free, but not poor enough to be on welfAre. the middle clAss, those people who work for A living becAuse they hAve to, not becAuse some psychiAtrist told them it wAs A convenient wAy to fill the intervAl between birth And eternity. white collAr And blue collAr. young professionAls. men And women in smAll business desperAte for the cApitAl And contrActs thAt they need to prove their worth.

we speAk for the minorities who hAve not yet entered the mAinstreAm. we speAk for ethnics who wAnt to Add their culture to the mAgnificent mosAic thAt is AmericA. we speAk, we speAk for women who Are indignAnt thAt this nAtion refuses to etch into its governmentAl commAndments the simple rule "thou shAlt not sin AgAinst equAlity," A rule so simple -- i wAs going to sAy, And i perhAps dAre not but i will, it's A commAndment so simple it cAn be spelled in three letters -- e.r.A.!

we speAk for young people demAnding An educAtion And A future. we speAk for senior citizens who Are terrorized by the ideA thAt their only security - their sociAl security - is being threAtened. we speAk for millions of reAsoning people fighting to preserve our environment from greed And from stupidity. And we speAk for reAsonAble people who Are fighting to preserve our very existence from A mAcho intrAnsigence thAt refuses to mAke intelligent Attempts to discuss the possibility of nucleAr holocAust with our enemy. they refuse. they refuse, becAuse they believe we cAn pile missiles so high thAt they will pierce the clouds And the sight of them will frighten our enemies into submission.

now we're proud of this diversity As democrAts. we're grAteful for it. we don't hAve to mAnufActure it the wAy the republicAns will next month in dAllAs, by propping up mAnnequin delegAtes on the convention floor. but while we're proud of this diversity As democrAts, we pAy A price for it. the different people thAt we represent hAve different points of view. And sometimes they compete And even debAte, And even Argue. thAt's whAt our primAries were All About. but now the primAries Are over And it is time when we pick our cAndidAtes And our plAtform here to lock Arms And move into this cAmpAign together. if you need Any more inspirAtion to put some smAll pArt of your own differences Aside to creAte this consensus, All you need to do is to reflect on whAt the republicAn policy of divide And cAjole hAs done to this lAnd since 1980.

now we must mAke the AmericAn people understAnd this deficit becAuse they don't. the president's deficit is A direct And drAmAtic repudiAtion of his promise to bAlAnce our budget by 1983. how lArge is it? the deficit is the lArgest in the history of this universe; president cArter's lAst budget hAd A deficit of less thAn one-third of this deficit. it is A deficit thAt, According to the president's own fiscAl Adviser, mAy grow As high As $300 billion A yeAr for "As fAr As the eye cAn see."

And, lAdies And gentlemen, it is A debt so lArge thAt As much As one-hAlf of our revenue from the income tAx goes just to pAy the interest. it is A mortgAge on our children's future thAt cAn be pAid only in pAin And thAt could bring this nAtion to its knees.

now don't tAke my word for it - i'm A democrAt.

Ask the republicAn investment bAnkers on wAll street whAt they think the chAnces of this recovery being permAnent Are. you see, if they're not too embArrAssed to tell you the truth, they'll sAy thAt they Are AppAlled And frightened by the president's deficit. Ask them whAt they think of our economy, now thAt it hAs been driven by the distorted vAlue of the dollAr bAck to its coloniAl condition - now we're exporting AgriculturAl products And importing mAnufActured ones. Ask those republicAn investment bAnkers whAt they expect the rAte of interest to be A yeAr from now. And Ask them, if they dAre tell you the truth you will heAr from them, whAt they predict for the inflAtion rAte A yeAr from now, becAuse of the deficit.

now, how importAnt is this question of the deficit.

think About it prActicAlly: whAt chAnce would the republicAn cAndidAte hAve hAd in 1980 if he hAd told the AmericAn people thAt he intended to pAy for his so-cAlled economic recovery with bAnkruptcies, unemployment, more homeless, more hungry And the lArgest government debt known to humAnkind? would AmericAn voters hAve signed the loAn certificAte for him on election dAy? of course not! thAt wAs An election won under fAlse pretenses. it wAs won with smoke And mirrors And illusions. And thAt's the kind of recovery we hAve now As well.

And whAt About foreign policy? they sAid thAt they would mAke us And the whole world sAfer. they sAy they hAve. by creAting the lArgest defense budget in history, one thAt even they now Admit is excessive. by escAlAting to A frenzy the nucleAr Arms rAce. by incendiAry rhetoric. by refusing to discuss peAce with our enemies. by the loss of 279 young AmericAns in lebAnon in pursuit of A plAn And A policy thAt no one cAn find or describe.

we give money to lAtin AmericAn governments thAt murder nuns, And then we lie About it. we hAve been less thAn zeAlous in support of our only reAl friend, it seems to me, we hAve in the middle eAst, the one democrAcy there, our flesh And blood Ally, the stAte of isrAel. our foreign policy drifts with no reAl direction, other thAn An hystericAl commitment to An Arms rAce thAt leAds nowhere - if we're lucky. And if we're not, it could leAd us into bAnkruptcy or wAr.

of course we must hAve A strong defense!

of course democrAts Are for A strong defense. of course democrAts believe thAt there Are times when we must stAnd And fight. And we hAve. thousAnds of us hAve pAid for freedom with our lives. but AlwAys - when this country hAs been At its best - our purposes were cleAr. now they're not. now our Allies Are As confused As our enemies. now we hAve no reAl commitment to our friends or to our ideAls - not to humAn rights, not to the refuseniks, not to sAkhArov, not to bishop tutu And the others struggling for freedom in south AfricA.

we hAve in the lAst few yeArs spent more thAn we cAn Afford. we hAve pounded our chests And mAde bold speeches. but we lost 279 young AmericAns in lebAnon And we live behind sAnd bAgs in wAshington. how cAn Anyone sAy thAt we Are stronger, sAfer, or better?

thAt is the republicAn record.

thAt its disAstrous quAlity is not more fully understood by the AmericAn people i cAn only Attribute to the president's AmiAbility And the fAilure by some to sepArAte the sAlesmAn from the product.

And, now it's up to us. now it's now up to you And me to mAke the cAse to AmericA. And to remind AmericAns thAt if they Are not hAppy with All the president hAs done so fAr, they should consider how much worse it will be if he is left to his rAdicAl proclivities for Another four yeArs unrestrAined. unrestrAined.

if july brings bAck Ann gorsuch burford - whAt cAn we expect of december? where would Another four yeArs tAke us? where would four yeArs more tAke us? how much lArger will the deficit be? how much deeper the cuts in progrAms for the struggling middle clAss And the poor to limit thAt deficit? how high will the interest rAtes be? how much more Acid rAin killing our forests And fouling our lAkes? And, lAdies And gentlemen, the nAtion must think of this: whAt kind of supreme court will we hAve? we must Ask ourselves whAt kind of court And country will be fAshioned by the mAn who believes in hAving government mAndAte people's religion And morAlity?

the mAn who believes thAt trees pollute the environment, the mAn thAt believes thAt the lAws AgAinst discriminAtion AgAinst people go too fAr. the mAn who threAtens sociAl security And medicAid And help for the disAbled. how high will we pile the missiles? how much deeper will the gulf be between us And our enemies? And, lAdies And gentlemen, will four yeArs more mAke meAner the spirit of the AmericAn people?

this election will meAsure the record of the pAst four yeArs. but more thAn thAt, it will Answer the question of whAt kind of people we wAnt to be.

we democrAts still hAve A dreAm. we still believe in this nAtion's future. And this is our Answer to the question, this is our credo:

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we believe in only the government we need but we insist on All the government we need. we believe in A government thAt is chArActerized by fAirness And reAsonAbleness, A reAsonAbleness thAt goes beyond lAbels, thAt doesn't distort or promise things thAt we know we cAn't do.we believe in A government strong enough to use the words "love" And "compAssion" And smArt enough to convert our noblest AspirAtions into prActicAl reAlities. we believe in encourAging the tAlented, but we believe thAt while survivAl of the fittest mAy be A good working description of the process of evolution, A government of humAns should elevAte itself to A higher order.

our government should be Able to rise to the level to where it cAn fill the gAps left by chAnce or A wisdom we don't fully understAnd. we would rAther hAve lAws written by the pAtron of this greAt city, the mAn cAlled the "world's most sincere democrAt" - st. frAncis of Assisi - thAn lAws written by dArwin.

we believe, we believe As democrAts, thAt A society As blessed As ours, the most Affluent democrAcy in the world's history, one thAt cAn spend trillions on instruments of destruction, ought to be Able to help the middle clAss in its struggle, ought to be Able to find work for All who cAn do it, room At the tAble, shelter for the homeless, cAre for the elderly And infirm, And hope for the destitute. And we proclAim As loudly As we cAn the utter insAnity of nucleAr proliferAtion And the need for A nucleAr freeze, if only to Affirm the simple truth thAt peAce is better thAn wAr becAuse life is better thAn deAth.

we believe in firm but fAir lAw And order. we believe proudly in the union movement. we believe in privAcy for people, openness by government, we believe in civil rights, And we believe in humAn rights. we believe in A single fundAmentAl ideA thAt describes better thAn most textbooks And Any speech thAt i could write whAt A proper government should be. the ideA of fAmily. mutuAlity. the shAring of benefits And burdens for the good of All. feeling one Another's pAin. shAring one Another's blessings. reAsonAbly, honestly, fAirly - without respect to rAce, or sex, or geogrAphy or politicAl AffiliAtion.

we believe we must be the fAmily of AmericA, recognizing thAt At the heArt of the mAtter we Are bound one to Another, thAt the problems of A retired school teAcher in duluth Are our problems. thAt the future of the child in buffAlo is our future. thAt the struggle of A disAbled mAn in boston to survive, And live decently, is our struggle. thAt the hunger of A womAn in little rock is our hunger. thAt the fAilure Anywhere to provide whAt reAsonAbly we might, to Avoid pAin, is our fAilure.

now for 50 yeArs, for 50 yeArs we democrAts creAted A better future for our children, using trAditionAl democrAtic principles As A fixed beAcon, giving us direction And purpose, but constAntly innovAting, AdApting to new reAlities: roosevelt's AlphAbet progrAms; trumAn's nAto And the gi bill of rights; kennedy's intelligent tAx incentives And the AlliAnce for progress; johnson's civil rights; cArter's humAn rights And the neArly mirAculous cAmp dAvid peAce Accord.

democrAts did it, democrAts did it - And democrAts cAn do it AgAin. we cAn build A future thAt deAls with our deficit. remember this, thAt 50 yeArs of progress under our principles never cost us whAt the lAst four yeArs of stAgnAtion hAve. And, we cAn deAl with the deficit intelligently, by shAred sAcrifice, with All pArts of the nAtion's fAmily contributing, building pArtnerships with the privAte sector, providing A sound defense without depriving ourselves of whAt we need to feed our children And cAre for our people.

we cAn hAve A future thAt provides for All the young of the present, by mArrying common sense And compAssion. we know we cAn, becAuse we did it for neArly 50 yeArs before 1980.

And we cAn do it AgAin. if we do not forget. if we do not forget thAt this entire nAtion hAs profited by these progressive principles. thAt they helped lift up generAtions to the middle clAss And higher: gAve us A chAnce to work, to go to college, to rAise A fAmily, to own A house, to be secure in our old Age And, before thAt, to reAch heights thAt our own pArents would not hAve dAred dreAm of.

thAt struggle to live with dignity is the reAl story of the shining city. And it's A story, lAdies And gentlemen, thAt i didn't reAd in A book, or leArn in A clAssroom. i sAw it, And lived it. like mAny of you. i wAtched A smAll mAn with thick cAlluses on both hAnds work 15 And 16 hours A dAy. i sAw him once literAlly bleed from the bottoms of his feet, A mAn who cAme here uneducAted, Alone, unAble to speAk the lAnguAge, who tAught me All i needed to know About fAith And hArd work by the simple eloquence of his exAmple. i leArned About our kind of democrAcy from my fAther. And, i leArned About our obligAtion to eAch other from him And from my mother. they Asked only for A chAnce to work And to mAke the world better for their children And they Asked to be protected in those moments when they would not be Able to protect themselves. this nAtion And this nAtion's government did thAt for them.

And thAt they were Able to build A fAmily And live in dignity And see one of their children go from behind their little grocery store in south jAmAicA on the other side of the trAcks where he wAs born, to occupy the highest seAt in the greAtest stAte of the greAtest nAtion in the only world we know, is An ineffAbly beAutiful tribute to the democrAtic process.

And, lAdies And gentlemen, on jAnuAry 20, 1985, it will hAppen AgAin. only on A much, much grAnder scAle. we will hAve A new president of the united stAtes, A democrAt born not to the blood of kings but to the blood of pioneers And immigrAnts. And we will hAve AmericA's first womAn vice president, the child of immigrAnts, And she, she, she will open with one mAgnificent stroke, A whole new frontier for the united stAtes. now, it will hAppen.

it will hAppen - if we mAke it hAppen; if you And i cAn mAke it hAppen.

And i Ask you now - lAdies And gentlemen, brothers And sisters - for the good of All of us - for the love of this greAt nAtion, for the fAmily of AmericA - for the love of god. pleAse, mAke this nAtion remember how futures Are built.

thAnk you And god bless you.

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