Quote of Today 20: Soong May-ling

今天是两位中国名人的诞辰纪念日。周恩来(d.1976)、宋美龄(d.2003)。两人都生于1898年3月5日。

蒋宋美龄最令后人赞叹的是她1943年2月18日在美国参众两院发表的那篇著名的演讲。

Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-Shek)

Address to
the U.S. House of Representatives

On February 18, 1943

We in China, like you,
want a better world, not for ourselves alone, but for all mankind,
and we must have it. It is not enough, however, to proclaim our
idea[l]s or even to be convinced that we have them. In order to
preserve, uphold, and maintain them, there are times when we should
throw all we cherish into our effort to fulfill these ideals even at
the risk of failure.

— Soong May-ling

演讲全文及音频地址：

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/soongmaylingspeechtocongress.htm