Thank you. Two years ago, I launched campaign called HeForShe at the UN in New York. I was very nervous before that speech. The nerves were followed by a tremendous high immediately afterwards and a crushing low a few days after that. My best hopes and my worst fears were confirmed all at once. I had opened Pandora's Box to a standing ovation and almost simultaneously, a level of critique I had never experienced in my life and the beginning of what would become a series of threats.
The last two years have been a baptism of fire, to say the least, where I learned just how little Iknow and also how much. It was my scary first step as an activist, a word I never imaginedthat I would use to describe myself. So, reading the applications of activists who apply herefor One Young World scholarships was surprising to me. Here I was, reading the stories ofpeople from nearly 200 different countries from around the world with experiences that Icouldn't even imagine. I mean, I really just – they were so out of this world to me. And yet, their notes look like my notes. The same themes emerged over and over and over again. Therewas so much overlap with the things that I had been thinking about and that I had beenstruggling with because the truth is, it had never been about being an activist. It was about thechoice to make myself visible and the choices that you made to do that, too.
Apart from the significant progress the world has made in the cause for equality, the best thingabout the last two years has been this: finding people from such disparate experiences andcommunities that I found that I have something in common with. This is a community ofartists, spiritual teachers, dreamers, thinkers, doers, who work together and support eachother. For the first time in my life, I found my sisterhood, a brotherhood, whatever, howeveryou want to describe it. I found my tribe.
My hope for you while you're here is that you will find some of your tribe, too. I really neededmine. Bobby Kennedy, when he was senator for New York said, "Each time, a man or womanstands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others, or strikes out against injustice, hesends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers ofenergy, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppressionand resistance." That's what we are doing. We, the entire spectrum of the feministmovement, are building an unstoppable current, for which we need ripples of hope fromevery age, race, ability, walk of life, from every human experience. I feel gender equality is asimportant as any of the other goals that we are here to discuss. And actually, if anything, it iseven more important because it intersects with every single other issue that we face. We allhave feminine and masculine energies within us.
And both forces need to be lifted up, respected. They need to work together in order to makethe world go round. Each of you are here at One Young World because you do somethingimportant. And it is so exciting to see you all come together in one room because One YoungWorld isn't about saying what I, each of us, individually can do, but what we can do – workingtogether, supporting, and listening to each other.
It's in that spirit that I am delighted to introduce nine activists who are the first recipients of aOne Young World scholarship that I am very honored to have in my name. They are working tosecure real progress towards a gender-equal world, and I hope that their stories inspire youas much as they have inspired me. In a moment, I am going to ask them to come onto thestage, but before I do, I want to offer a few statements of my own that I have struggled withand I continue to struggle with on a daily basis but that I've found inspiring.
I want to ask you to take a moment, you can keep your eyes closed or keep them open, andask yourself if these have any truth for you in them.
I am willing to be seen.
I am willing to speak up.
I am willing to keep going.
I am willing to listen to what others have to say.
I am willing to go forward even when I feel alone.
I am willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
I am willing to be my biggest, bestest, most powerful self.
These seven statements scare the absolute shit out of me. But I know that they are at the cruxof it all. At the end of the day, and when all is said and done, I know that these are the waysthat I want to have lived my life. I know each one of you probably will have encountered one ofthese statements in the last 48 hours, and if you have, thank you for being here. I appreciateit. It's truly an honor to be here with you all.
Thank you.
谢谢您.两年前，我发起的活动被称为叫做HeForShe运动的活动在纽约举行的联合国。那次演讲前我很紧张。紧随其后的是巨大的神经，紧接着几天后又是一个极度的低点。我最好的希望和最坏的恐惧都立即证实了。我打开了潘多拉的盒子，全场起立鼓掌，几乎同时，我从未体验过的批评，以及一系列威胁的开始。
过去两年一直是一场洗礼，至少可以说，我在那里学到了我所知甚少，也知道了多少。这是我作为一个积极分子迈出的第一步，我从来没有想过我会用这个词来形容自己。因此，阅读申请一个世界青年奖学金的积极分子的申请令我吃惊。在这里，我读了来自世界各地近200个不同国家的人们的经历，我甚至无法想象。我的意思是，我真的只是-他们对我来说是如此的陌生。然而，他们的笔记看起来像我的笔记。同样的主题一再出现。我一直在思考的事情和我一直在挣扎的事情有太多的重叠，因为事实上，它从来就不是一个积极分子。它是关于让我自己看得见的选择和你做出的选择。
除了世界在平等事业方面取得的重大进步之外，过去两年中最美好的事情是：从这些截然不同的经历和社区中找到一些人，我发现我与他们有共同之处。这是一个艺术家、精神导师、梦想家、思想家、实干家的团体，他们一起工作，互相支持。我生命中的第一次，我发现我的姐妹，兄弟，什么的，但是你想描述它。我找到了我的部落。
我希望你们在这里的时候也能找到你们的部落。我真的需要我的。Bobby Kennedy，时任纽约州参议员说，“每一次，一个男人或女人站起来为一个理想，或用来改善他人的地段，或是反抗不公的时候，他发出一个微小的希望的涟漪，并相互交叉的来自一百万个不同的能量中心，这些波纹建立电流可以扫下来的压迫与反抗的强大的墙。这就是我们正在做的。我们，女权运动的整个领域，正在建立一个不可阻挡的潮流，我们需要从每个年龄、种族、能力、生活的道路、每个人的经历中充满希望。我觉得男女平等和我们在这里讨论的其他目标一样重要。实际上，如果有的话，它甚至更为重要，因为它与我们面临的每一个其他问题相交叉。我们体内都有女性和男性的能量。
这两种力量都需要得到尊重。他们需要共同努力，才能使世界运转起来。你们每个人都在一个年轻的世界，因为你们做了一些重要的事情。看到你们聚在一个房间里真是太令人兴奋了，因为一个年轻的世界并不是在说我们每个人都能做什么，而是我们能做什么——一起工作，互相支持，互相倾听。
正是本着这种精神，我高兴地介绍了九位活动家，他们是第一个获得一个世界青年奖学金的人，我很荣幸能以我的名义获得他们的奖学金。他们正致力于在性别平等的世界上取得真正的进展，我希望他们的故事能像你们鼓舞我一样激励你们。过一会儿，我要请他们上台，但在我上台之前，我想提出一些我自己的声明，我一直在挣扎，我每天都在挣扎着，但我找到了鼓舞人心的东西。
我想请你花一点时间，闭上眼睛，睁开眼睛，问问自己这些话对你是否有道理。
我愿意被人看见。
我愿意大声说出来。
我愿意继续下去。
我愿意倾听别人说的话。
即使我感到孤独，我也愿意勇往直前。
我愿意每晚与自己和平共处。
我愿意是我最大的，最好的，最强大的自我。
这七种说法吓得我彻底崩溃了。但我知道他们是这一切的关键。在一天结束的时候，当一切都说了，做了，我知道这些都是我想要的生活方式。我知道你们中的每一个人可能在过去的48个小时里都遇到过其中一个声明，如果有的话，谢谢你们来到这里。我很感激。能和你们在一起真是我的荣幸。
谢谢您.
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